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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.
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 ...
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 which is ...
The 2023 Karachi Police Station Attack occurred on 17 February 2023, when Islamist insurgents stormed the heavily guarded Karachi Police Office (KPO) located at the heart of the provincial metropolis of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The attackers used guns and grenades to kill four people (two policemen, a ranger, and a civilian) and injured 14 others.
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 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 ...
On 26 June 2013, a bomb exploded near Burns Road killing nine people and injuring fifteen in Karachi, Pakistan. [1] The bomb was intended to blow up Sindh High Court justice Maqbool Baqar's convoy. The bomb was located on a motorbike near a mosque. Five of the people killed in the bomb explosion were police officers.
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 ...