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Four security personnel among 26 injured in Karachi bomb blast | At least 26 people, including four security personnel
were injured in a bomb blast, which targeted a Muharram procession here. The blast occurred soon after the procession passed the Khilafat Chowk in Karachi ’s North
Nazimabad Town . Initial investigations suggested that the bomb, which weighed
around half a kilogramme, was triggered-off by a remote controlled device.
“Twenty-six
people, including two rangers personnel and two policemen were wounded and
taken
to hospital. Six of them have been discharged while others may be released soon,”
The Daily Times quoted Karachi City Police Officer, Waseem Ahmed, as saying.
Ahmed
said that the bomb was planted near by car parked on the procession route. Security
has been beefed up across the city following the incident. None of the extremist
groups have claimed the responsibility for the blast, however, Sindh Police CID
SSP Fayyaz Khan said that the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) and other anti-Shia
elements might have carried out the attack. It is pertinent to mention here that
intelligence officials had warned that scores of militants belonging to
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LJ) have entered Karachi to wreak havoc in the city during Muharram. According
to the officials, the militants who, until now, were fighting in the tribal areas
of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Waziristan have now sneaked
into
Karachi to evoke sectarian violence in the commercial capital. “They plan to carry
out suicide bombings and target killings. These terrorists want to show their
strength to the law enforcers and intelligence agencies, and they also want to
take revenge of the killings of their leaders and workers in the last couple of
months in the city,” a senior police official had said earlier. |
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