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Suicide Bomber Strikes Karachi: 40 dead, 95 injured

by rumana husain | December 28, 2009 at 05:03 am

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The Ashura - tenth day of Moharram procession was moving peacefully, as thousands of men and women - mourners remembering the sacrifices of Prophet Mohammad's family in Kerbala - commemorate the day each year in this Islamic month when a suicide bomber struck the crowds, killing at least 20 and injuring over 60 people so far. Apparently 16 persons are seriously injured.

Angry mourners started to burn vehicles and shops in the centre of the city of Karachi where the blast happened. Some ten thousand security personel, including police were deployed in the city out of which six thousand were moving with the procession on M A Jinnah Road, which is one of the main arteries of the city.

KARACHI: Twenty people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia procession on Karachi's M.A. Jinnah on Monday, CCPO Waseem Ahmed said.

Meanwhile, hospital sources confirmed that 19 people were killed in the incident.

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NOUSHERWANIS

at 08:46 on December 28th, 2009

Update

The death toll has risen to 32 and the in the resultant violence over 400 shops were set ablaze

rumana husain

at 09:14 on December 28th, 2009

thanks nousherwanis. i have an update from dawn news just now (the blast occurred at 4.20 pm, and it is 10.15 pm now) that puts the death toll at 27, and 70 injured, over a 100 shops have been gutted.

rumana husain

at 20:39 on December 28th, 2009

According to Geo news "the death tally, in suicide blast at the mourning procession in connection with Ashura – 10th Muharram, has mounted to 40 people while as many as another 95 unfortunate persons sustained wounds here at MA Jinnah Road in Karachi on Monday."