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Afghanistan/South Asia
Suicide bombing at Karachi shia mosque
2005-05-30
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least five people, including two assailants, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Monday at Muslim mosque in southern Pakistan, the latest religious violence to rock the country, officials said.

Eighteen people were wounded, four seriously, in the attack at the a minority Shi'ite Mandinatul Ilm mosque in the middle-class Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi, hospital officials said.

It was the latest incident of religious violence to hit one of Washington's main allies in its war on terrorism and came after a suicide bombing at a Muslim festival in the capital Islamabad on Friday that killed at least 19 people, mostly Shi'ite Muslims.

Senior Karachi police officer Gul Hameed Sammo said two attackers were killed including one who blew himself up, while a third was unconscious and in critical condition in hospital.

Police said explosives and detonators were found strapped to the bodies of the other attackers.

Police officer Asif Aijaz Shaikh said one attacker snatched a gun from a police guard at the mosque and shot him dead.

"When they heard the fire, the two other police guards responded and opened fire on the two assailants standing outside," he said. "At this point, the assailant inside the mosque blew himself up."

Mobs of angry Shi'ite youths stoned and set fire to a nearby outlet of the American fast food chain KFC and also attacked a hospital and two petrol stations.

"The situation got totally out of control in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Angry mobs were on the street and were not allowing police and ambulances to enter the affected place," Haider said.
Posted by:john

#3  hey, it's possible a Koran was treated unkindly...what was the enraged Islamic mob supposed to do? Turn the other cheek(s)?


ROPMA
Posted by: Frank G   2005-05-30 20:58  

#2  Six charred bodies recovered from KFC fast food restaurant in Karachi
(Updated at 0515 PST) By Afzal Nadeem
KARACHI: An enraged mob of protesters have torched a restaurant located at the Neepa Chowrangi area of Karachi after the blast in the Madina-tul-Ilm mosque and six charred bodies have been recovered from the restaurant late night.

All the six bodies have completely burned to ashes. The bodies have been identified as electrician Mohammad Saleem, one sales manager, an AC technician security guard Ghulam Hussain and two other employees the names of whom have yet to be identified.

At least more then a hundred people were present in the restaurant when it was set on fire. Nearby shops and many other buildings were also damaged due to the torching of the restaurant. Many people are searching for their loved ones outside the restaurant even now. They say that their relatives who came to the restaurant have not returned to their homes even now.

Relief activities are underway and it is suspected that more damages can occur. Meanwhile the police officials who killed the attackers of the Madina-tul-Ilm mosque have been promoted while the funeral prayer of Raza Rashid Hussain the police official who was killed in the attack would be held at the police headquarters in Garden today.

Posted by: john   2005-05-30 20:39  

#1  Mobs of angry Shi'ite youths stoned and set fire to a nearby outlet of the American fast food chain KFC and also attacked a hospital and two petrol stations.

Luckily, El Al does not have an office in Pakiwackystan.

What is wrong with these people? [just a rhetorical question...]
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-05-30 19:55  

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