Pakistan

[Schneemann]

Der Terror ist offenbar nicht mehr auf die Tribal Areas beschränkt, sondern sitzt mitten in den Städten...

Eight reported killed in Karachi explosion

At least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police said.

The blast happened in Balida Town, a poor neighbourhood of the southern city, Pakistan's commercial hub. Police said explosives stored at the house may have gone off and that the dead were believed to be militants. In December, a blast at a Shia Muslim march in Karachi, claimed by the Taliban, killed 43 people and injured dozens more. "The terrorists themselves are the victims of their own explosives," the AFP news agency quoted Karachi police chief Waseem Ahmad as saying. Police say that eight bodies were pulled out from the rubble of the house.

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