- Title: PAKISTAN: BOMB BLAST IN KARACHI KILLS TWO PEOPLE
- Date: 11th July 2003
- Summary: (U2) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JULY 11, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN OF EXTERIOR FRONT OF OFFICE BUILDING DAMAGED BY BLAST 0.08 2. SLV OF DAMAGED BUILDING 0.14 3. VARIOUS OF INVESTIGATORS SIFTING WRECKAGE AND DEBRIS 0.20 4. SLV POLICE LOOKING AT BLOOD STAINS IN GROUND 0.25 5. CLOSE OF BLOOD MARKS ON GROUND, BOOT LYING ON GR
- Embargoed: 26th July 2003 13:00
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- Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
- Country: Pakistan
- Reuters ID: LVACUW4RM67B4WET0M08ZG7NLWUU
- Story Text: A bomb blast in Karachi city centre has killed two
people and injured several others.
A bomb exploded near the entrance to an office block
in the volatile Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday (July 11),
killing at least two people and wounding several others,
police and emergency workers said.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
Police said the blast occurred outside the Crown Plaza
building in the eastern part of the city at about 8:05 a.m.
(0305 GMT), before most officer workers had arrived for work.
A spokesman for the Edhi Welfare Foundation, a private
emergency service, told Reuters at least two people were
killed.
Ajamal Magsi, a senior police officer in the area, said
the explosion was caused by a bomb. He said one private
security guard and a passerby were killed.
The bomb was placed near the entrance of the building and police were
trying to determine its size, he said.
Witnesses said several people were injured by flying
shards of glass from shattered windows, but not seriously.
The blast came a week after a major attack on a Shi'ite
Muslim mosque in the southwestern city of Quetta in which 53
people were killed and many others wounded.
Police said they suspected majority Sunni Muslim militants
of carrying out that attack, the worst of its kind in Pakistan
for years.
The port city of Karachi, Pakistan's commercial centre,
has been badly hit by violence between the Sunni and Shi'ite
sects in the past.
Members of the former Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan and
the al Qaeda network are also suspected to be holed up in the teeming
city of 12 million people.
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