By IANS
Karachi : At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and more than 20 injured in a bomb blast in a busy area in Karachi Monday evening, police and hospital sources said.
The bomb was placed in a bag that was hanging from a motorbike in the Quaid Abad area of the city, said the police.
An eyewitness said that he heard a huge sound followed by human screams while passing through the Quaid Abad Square. “I saw a child flying up about 20 feet from the ground,” said the eyewitness.
The blast took place on a day President Pervez Musharraf visited the city, and comes three days after a powerful blast rocked Lahore, killing 26 people, mostly policemen, and injuring scores.
“Six dead bodies and 13 injured have been brought to the hospital,” a doctor at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital told IANS. He added that some bodies and the injured were taken to the Social Security Hospital.
However, Inspector General of Sindh Police Azhar Farooqi said that four people were killed and about 10 injured. “I’ve received initial reports and according to them, four people were killed and about ten injured,” Farooqi told IANS.
The police have cordoned off the area to keep people away.
More than 300 hundred people died last year in bomb blasts in different cities adding worries to Pakistan, which is a frontline state in the US-led war on terror in neighbouring Afghanistan.