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On 8 June 2014, 10 militants armed with automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, suicide vests, and grenades attacked Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. 36 people were killed, including all 10 attackers, and 18 others were wounded. [2] The militant organisation Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) initially claimed responsibility for ...
On 12 May 2022, at least 1 person was killed and 13 were left injured in a blast near the Saddar area of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. [2] [3] [4] [5]According to reports, the bomb was placed inside a motorcycle close to a garbage dump.
Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York, United States, with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan, and Frankfurt, West Germany. On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijacked while on the ground at Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists of the Abu Nidal ...
The 2009 Karachi bombing or Ashura attack took place on 28 December 2009 inside a Shia procession commemorating the day of Ashura, at Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ashura is the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam and marks the anniversary of the death of Hussain, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was killed ...
Bombings. On 14 July 1987, two vehicles drove into the Bohri Bazaar in Karachi, Pakistan packed with RDX and parked. The first car bomb detonated at about 6:30 pm outside a hairdresser's shop on Syedna Burhanuddin Street near a bus stop destroying eight shops and a hotel. The second car bomb detonated 30 minutes later on Raja Ghazanfar Ali Road ...
On 26 April 2022, a suicide bombing hit a van near the University of Karachi 's Confucius Institute, killing three Chinese academics and their Pakistani driver. The Balochistan Liberation Army, [3] claimed responsibility, saying that the perpetrator was the organization's first female suicide bomber. [4][5] Of the three Chinese killed, one was ...
The Karsaz bombing attack occurred on 18 October 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan; it was an attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The bombing occurred two months before she was assassinated. The bombing resulted in at least 180 deaths and 500 injuries. [1][2][3][4] Most of the dead were members of the Pakistan Peoples ...
Murtaza Wahab, the administrator of Karachi issued a statement on Twitter that initially 15 people had died and 16 were injured and brought to hospital. [4] Senior policeman Sarfaraz Nawaz Shaikh confirmed that 16 people had been injured. The number of people dead was later raised to 17 after 5 of the victims died in the hospital. [5]