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| India-Pakistan |
| Twenty wounded in Karachi booms |
| 2002-05-02 |
| At least 20 persons, including two women and a young girl, were wounded in two separate bomb blasts in Karachi at Empress Market and Nursery. In the major explosion 16 persons were injured when a medium-intensity explosive device rocked a shop in the Empress Market. The device was planted in a red chilly crate at a store located at the main passage way leading to the backside of the market. An official of the bomb disposal squad said the locally-made explosive device was of 200gm and fitted with a timer device. Earlier, in a blast at Nursery, which occurred around 20 minutes before the Empress Market explosion, four persons were injured. The blast occurred at the Al-Khair cold drink shop. The blast near a sugarcane juice machine outside the shop caused fire in a gas pipeline. However, a senior police officer of Ferozabad police station said that according to initial investigation the blast seems to have occurred in a gas pipeline passing through the shop. But the witnesses said the explosive device was kept in a shopping bag, which was planted near a gas pipeline beside the sugarcane juice vendor. Hell, yeah. Multiple bomb blasts are a normal phenomenon around here, too. Happens all the time. That, and moles... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |