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    April 05, 2012

Bomber, Gunmen Strike Target Police in Pakistan


   Paramilitary soldiers stand near the site of a bomb attack in Karachi
   April 5, 2012.
   Photo: Reuters
   Paramilitary soldiers stand near the site of a bomb attack in Karachi
   April 5, 2012.

   A suicide bomber and a group of gunmen carried out two deadly attacks
   Thursday targeting police in Pakistan's largest city.
   Police say three people died and another 13 were wounded when a suicide
   bomber blew himself up next to a vehicle carrying a district police
   chief. The chief - Malir district Chief Rao Anwar - escaped unharmed.
   Elsewhere in Karachi Thursday, unidentified gunmen attacked a police
   patrol, killing three officers.
   A doctor at Karachi's Jinnah Hospital said the dead included one
   sub-inspector and two constables.
   Sectarian violence has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of people
   in Karachi in recent years. Many of the killings are blamed on ethnic
   gangs linked to rival political factions such as the majority
   Urdu-speaking MQM and the Awami National Party of Pashtun migrants.

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