- Title: PAKISTAN: Four blasts in Pakistan's Karachi, 23 hurt
- Date: 8th July 2008
- Summary: (BN12) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JULY 7, 2008) (REUTERS) PEOPLE GATHERED AT ONE OF THE BLAST SITES/AMBULANCES PARKED AND ONE AMBULANCE ARRIVING SMALL CRATER CREATED BY BLAST RESIDENTS PROTESTING POLICE AND PROTESTING RESIDENTS POLICEMAN SIFTING THROUGH BLAST SITE PARKED AMBULANCES POLICE EXAMINING ANOTHER BLAST SITE DEBRIS AMBULANCE ARRIVING PEOPLE GATHERED AT ANOTHER BLAST SITE
- Embargoed: 23rd July 2008 13:00
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- Location: Pakistan
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA85ONXFPGEJ24JVKG8WDKNW9VG
- Story Text: At least four small explosions hit the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, wounding at least 23 people, most with shrapnel wounds.
At least four small explosions hit the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday (July 7), wounding several people, a provincial government minister said.
Staff at city hospitals confirmed that 23 people had been wounded, most with small shrapnel wounds.
One eye witness, Amna, told Reuters how she saw her child injured in one of the blasts.
"I had not yet finished my prayers that I heard an explosion.
After few moments I saw people bringing my little child Noor Ahmad drenched in blood. Then they took my child to somewhere.. .crying." Amna said While another resident, Abdullah, who was injured in a blast said he saw a vehicle explode and then two youths throw hand grenades.
"A vehicle was parked here then this explosion occurred. After some moments boys wearing helmets went there and threw two grenades. The children flew in the air, I was also hurt. I picked them up." Abdullah said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the blasts but Pakistan's biggest city and its commercial capital has a history of sectarian, ethnic and religious militant violence.
Karachi saw bloody battles between rival factions in the 1990s but it has been largely peaceful in recent years apart from a weekend of clashes last year between activists from a party that supports President Pervez Musharraf and rivals in which about 40 people were killed.
Islamist militants have also carried out bomb attacks in Karachi and about 140 people were killed in a suicide attack on a homecoming procession for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in October 2007.
Bhutto was not hurt in that attack but was killed in a suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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