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| Two killed in kaboom outside mosque in Karachi |
| 2014-07-06 |
| [DAWN] KARACHI: A kaboom outside a mosque on New Preedy Street in Saddar on Friday noon killed at least two people and injured two others, according to police and hospital officials. One of the two deceased or both might be transporting the improvised bomb attached with steel nails on a cycle of violence when it went kaboom!due to mishandling, believed police sources. The bomb, weighing between two and four kilograms, went kaboom!due to 'mishandling' according to initial report of investigation, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo told Dawn. He said it seemed that the mosque, Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki, and its neighbouring seminary, Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami Madressah, were not the actual target. The police sources said that the possible target could be the nearby rally of a religious group, Jamaatud Da'awa, and the bomb went kaboom!on a moving cycle of violence due to some mishandling. A police official who wished not to be named also told Dawn that the possible target could be a rally organised by Jamaatud Da'awa at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, as its offices and properties had been recently targeted with planted bombs at Nipa, old Sabzi Mandi and Gulshan-e-Hadeed. The blast was so powerful that it damaged the glasses of the unused multi-storey Parking Plaza across the road and destroyed two motorbikes. CID police counter-terror chief Raja Umer Khattab said that it emerged during the initial investigation that it was not suicide kaboom. "No suicide jacket was found at the blast site," he said. He said the police Sherlocks were treating both the dear departed as possible suspects, because the bodies were badly damaged and both sustained wounds caused by kaboom on their right side of the bodies. "It is yet to be ascertained as to whether they were riding separate motorbikes or one motorbike," the CID chief added. Identity of the dear departed "We received one body in fragmented pieces while the other body though badly damaged was intact," said police surgeon Dr Jalil Qadir. He said the right arm as well as the right side of the head and brain substance were missing. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... the body's left side was intact that could help the Sherlocks to identify him. The other body, which was relatively in a better position despite fractured limbs and chest and abdomen exposed, was identified as that of Abdul Fatah Dahiri, because the face was intact and recognisable. The police said one of the dear departed was identified as Abdul Fatah Dahiri, originally hailing from Daulatpur, Nawabshah, and resident of Khandu Goth, Nazimabad. They quoted his wife as telling the police that he used to leave home in the morning as he dealt in mobile phones and return home at night. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... a hospital official said the brother of the dear departed who arrived at the JPMC mortuary to receive the body told the hospital administration that Dahiri ran a video shop in Khandu Goth. Motorbikes An official at the Brigade cop shoppe said one of the destroyed motorbikes was owned by a resident of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Amir Sultan, and the police Sherlocks were trying to ascertain as to whether the other motorbike belonged to him or to the critically maimed, Maqsood, who was riding it. Maqsood was being operated upon at the JPMC where he was not in a position to speak, he said. The other maimed person was identified as Mohammed Khan, a fruit vendor, who was discharged from hospital after being given first aid. He told the police that he was selling fruit to car riders when he heard the kaboom. Blast site The area was cordoned off following the blast. There was a crowd of onlookers besides ambulances and media crew at the scene. With the impact of the blast, windows of the Parking Plaza across the road were broken. Blood-stained mangoes were spread over the road outside Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki (named after Haji Imdadmullah Muhajir Makki) and Madressah Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami (named after Maulana Irshad Ahmed Shaheed) after the blast. "Look at all the pieces of flesh scattered all over the place. We found a human skull stuck to the wall there," said a Chhipa volunteer, Abdul Hameed. "This can only happen to the one carrying the bomb," he said. Besides the two motorbikes, a dark green Cultus showered in blood was parked near the blast site. The car belonged to two brothers, Mohammad Saad and Adnan, who weren't sure what they should do about it. "I'm manager at a Meezan Bank branch nearby. My brother and I only stopped for a few minutes here to buy some fruit for Iftar when the blast occurred. We just got down. Now we have gathered some courage to come forward and ask the officers here if we can take our car," said Mr Saad, while speaking to Dawn. His brother, Adnan, said that they were also hesitant to come forward as they wondered if they would be included in the suspects somehow. Mohammad Asif, a resident of Lines Area, said he rushed to the location on hearing the blast. "Everyone was running helter-skelter. These surveillance cameras if they are working must have recorded the entire thing," he said. Outside the mortuary Mohammad Azeem, a KKF ambulance driver outside the mortuary of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, said that the bodies were in pieces and beyond recognition. "There is a fruit vendor whose remains they have been put together to identify him and there is the fellow with whose motorbike perhaps the bomber collided. His torso and legs are here with cycle of violence parts stuck in the flesh. The other parts of his body were in the cop shoppe." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Our priest shakes hands, greets parishioners, and offers coffee and donuts after Mass. They blow everyone up outside the Mosque. Every religion has its traditions, I guess. Who am I to judge? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-07-06 07:32 |