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A friend of mine who is in Pakistan atm was in a shop just 50 meters away...
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| Police hunt Karachi bombers
3 dead in blast outside U.S. restaurant Tuesday, November 15, 2005; Posted: 7:55 a.m. EST (12:55 GMT) KARACHI, Pakistan -- Police are hunting bombers who attacked a KFC fast-food restaurant in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 15. Police and doctors blamed the attacks in the center of the country's commercial hub on Islamist militants. Some victims suffered severe burns in the bombing, which blew a meter-wide hole in the street and engulfed it in a fireball that gutted six or seven other parked cars. (Watch: Bomb outside Karachi restaurant -- 2:56) "I thought it was an earthquake," security guard Hassan Ali, being treated in hospital for head injuries and bandaged over his left eye, told Reuters. He said he had passed out during the blast. Provincial authorities said they suspected Islamist militants might be to blame and cast doubt on a claim of responsibility by a separatist group from nearby Baluchistan province which said it had targeted an office of a state-run Pakistani oil company. "Indications are that extremist and militant organizations could be involved in the blast. The blast got instant publicity the world over and that's what the militants want," Salahuddin Haider, spokesman for the Sindh provincial government in Karachi, told Reuters. A small Suzuki sedan blew up just before 9 a.m. (0400 GMT), gutting the restaurant on the ground floor of the six-story office block and shattering all the windows in the building which houses several oil and gas exploration firms, including Pakistan Petroleum (PPL) which runs Pakistan's largest gas field in Baluchistan. Manzoor Mughal, a senior police investigator, told The Associated Press that one foreign national of unknown nationality was among the injured, but was released from a hospital after being treated. |
A friend of mine who is in Pakistan atm was in a shop just 50 meters away...
