PAKISTAN: BOMB BLAST INSIDE A SHI'ITE MOSQUE DURING EVENING PRAYERS KILLS AT LEAST THIRTEEN PEOPLE IN KARACHI.

Record ID: 358860

  • Title: PAKISTAN: BOMB BLAST INSIDE A SHI'ITE MOSQUE DURING EVENING PRAYERS KILLS AT LEAST THIRTEEN PEOPLE IN KARACHI.
  • Date: 31st May 2004
  • Summary: (W6) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MAY 31, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. HAS/NIGHT: THE SCENE OF THE BLAST. (3 SHOTS) 0.34 2. VARIOUS: INJURED MAN ON TROLLY BEING WHEELED INTO HOSPITAL. 0.39 3. VARIOUS: INJURED MEN ON BEDS BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL BY MEDICAL STAFF. (2 SHOTS) 1.20 4. SCU: RELATIVES OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL CRYING. (3 SHOTS) 1.
  • Embargoed: 15th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA9GUO6XXFO77HINCU4O99K5QZL
  • Story Text: Blast in Karachi mosque kills at least 13.



    A bomb blast inside a Shi'ite mosque during evening
    prayers killed at least 13 people on Monday (May 31) in the
    southern city of Karachi, where a senior cleric from
    Pakistan's majority Sunni sect was gunned down a day
    earlier.

    Doctors at three city hospitals told Reuters reporters
    they had counted 13 dead so far, while an angry crowd
    milling around in the darkness outside the cordoned-off
    mosque talked of more bodies inside the shattered building.

    Doctors said about 30 had been wounded.

    Fears of a fresh round of inter-Muslim sectarian
    violence ran high in Karachi after the killing on Sunday of
    Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a radical Sunni preacher, and
    thousands of police were deployed at mosques in
    anticipation of a backlash.

    The blast at the Ali Raza Imam Bargah mosque was less
    than a mile away from where Shamzai, a pro-Taliban cleric
    who called for "jihad", or holy war, against the United
    States, was killed.

    A suicide bomber killed 24 people and wounded 125 in
    an attack on a Shi'ite mosque earlier in May.


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