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Deadly Bomb Attacks Rock Karachi

   VOA News 05 February 2010
   Pakistan mourners

Photo: AFP

   Pakistani Shiite Muslims mourn at the site of a motorcycle bomb attack
   on a bus in Karachi, 05 Feb 2010

   Pakistani  authorities  say two bomb attacks killed at least 20 people
   in the southern port city of Karachi Friday.
   Officials  say  the first blast tore through a bus in a Shi'ite Muslim
   community, killing at least 12 people and wounding 40 others.
   Police say the blast was caused by a motorcycle laden with explosives.
   Later  in the day, a huge explosion hit the hospital where some of the
   wounded   were  being  treated.  Officials  say  the  blast  near  the
   hospital's emergency ward killed at least eight people.
   Karachi  has seen an upsurge of ethnic violence in the past week, with
   at least 26 people killed.
   The  clashes  appeared  to  be  between activists from rival political
   parties  - the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the Awami National Party -
   which traditionally gather support from different ethnic groups

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.

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