MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008
20:47 MECCA TIME, 17:47 GMT
Deadly blast strikes Karachi
Officials said the blast appeared not to have been
caused by a suicide attack [Reuters]
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40
injured in a bomb attack in a vegetable market in
Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.
Akhtar Zamin, the home minister of Sindh province
where Karachi is situated, said the bomb appeared to
have been concealed in either a fruit and vegetable
stall by the roadside or on a motorbike that was
destroyed in the blast on Monday.
"It does not appear to be a suicide attack," he said.
Dozens of people gathered at the site of the explosion
and chanted anti-government slogans, the Reuters news
agency reported.
Pakistan has been struck by a series of violent
attacks that have killed hundreds of people in recent
months, including Benazir Bhutto, a former prime
minister and opposition leader who assassinated in
Rawalpindi on December 27.
Security concern
Last week, 16 policemen and three civilians were
killed in a suicide attack in the eastern city of
Lahore.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but
the government has blamed them on al Qaeda-linked
groups based in the lawless tribal region of the
country bordering Afghanistan.
Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president who is
visiting Karachi, said earlier on Monday that
militancy posed a big threat to the country and
expressed his government's resolve to eradicate it.
"The president said this was a serious challenge to
the country and the nation would have to fight this
menace jointly and boldly," the official Associated
Press of Pakistan reported.
The violence has increased security concerns and comes
weeks before elections on February 18 that could
weaken Musharraf's grip on power as his allies are
expected to fare poorly.
The vote was meant to take place on January 8 but was
postponed after Bhutto's killing.
Source: Agencies
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