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Karachi blast death toll mounts to 11 |
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Updated at:
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PST, Monday, January 14, 2008 |
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KARACHI: Death toll in the bomb blast in Quaidabad has risen up to eleven, while number of wounded to at least 40.
Many labourers, who work in the Landhi industrial area, were stated to be among the victims. Two minors and a woman have been also counted among the dead.
Twenty injured were shifted to Social Security Hospital, 40 at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) hospital, while some others were moved to Steel Mills hospital.
Meanwhile, Rangers personnel were deployed at the JPMC hospital to avoid any law and order situation at the facility.
Sindh police chief, Azhar Ali Farooqui, visited the crime scene. He claimed that the explosive device was planted in a motorcycle parked at the spot.
Farooqui told media persons that an investigation committee headed by a SSP rank's official and comprising of two senior police officials has been constituted to probe into the blast.
"The blast scene would be preserved to collect real evidences that may lead police to further disclosures," police chief assured.
"The bomb was planted on a motorbike and exploded outside a textile factory in the Landi district of Karachi. At least seven people are dead and about 20 wounded," senior police official Mohammed Javed was quoted as saying.
Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema said the bomb killed seven people and wounded 25.
"I was leaving the factory when I heard a huge explosion and I saw several people lying in pools of blood on the road. There were more than 30 people who were hit by the blast," eyewitness Rehman Malik said while talking to a news agency.
"As soon as the bomb went off the electricity pylon caught fire and the lights went out. There were bodies lying all around and I could hear people screaming in the darkness," he added.
Wounded people covered in blood and with their clothes blown off by the force of the blast were brought to hospitals in ambulances and the back of pick-up trucks, a reporter of the news agency said.
Gunfire erupted in the area in the wake of the attack. |
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