Explosion in Karachi City of Pakistan kills 6 persons

A blast destroyed a house being used by militants in Karachi city of Pakistan on Friday, with six people killed when explosives apparently detonated accidentally, police said.

Guns, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in Baldia town, which officials said was a den for militants.

“We have pulled out all the bodies from the rubble and shifted them to hospital for the autopsies,” a police official said.

Another police official, Abdul Majeed Dasti, said grenades, a Kalashnikov rifle and suicide vests were found at the scene, while city police chief Waseem Ahmad said the explosives appeared to have been detonated unintentionally.

“It seems that explosives which were stored in the house caused the explosion... The house was being used by terrorists,” Ahmad said, adding that two people had been arrested at the scene.

Meanwhile incidents of target killing continued in the city with four more people were gunned down on Friday.

The deaths resulted in indiscriminate firing by unknown people in Garden area of the city. Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza termed the target killings as a conspiracy against the present government.

The home ministry has announced that it will hold a meeting on Jan 11 to probe into these target killings over the past two days in Karachi. Meanwhile, the families of the victims will also be questioned in connection to these killings.

Earlier on Thursday, at least seven people were shot dead and nearly a dozen injured after unidentified gunmen went on a shooting rampage around the Garden and Lyari areas of Karachi.

After the incident, angry protestors from Lyari placed the dead bodies in front of the Sindh Chief Minister House and alleged that the Muttahida Quami Movement was involved in the killings.

- Asian Tribune -