Bike bomb kills two outside Karachi mosque

At least two people were killed and seven others wounded after a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Karachi on Friday, police said.
The blast took place in the congested Aram Bagh area of Pakistan's biggest city, outside a mosque belonging to a sub-sect of the minority Shi'ite Muslim community.
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A police spokesperson said two were killed in the blast and seven wounded.

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Saif-ud-Din, a witness, said people were coming out of the mosque after Friday prayers when there was a huge blast and many people fell to the ground.
"I was inside the mosque when the bomb exploded and I saw people falling to the ground," Din told AFP.
Umer Khatab, a senior officer at the police Counter Terrorism Department, told reporters that about two kilogrammes of explosives were used in the bomb, which was detonated with a timer.
"The bomb was planted to target the people coming out of the mosque," Khatab said.
Many worshippers in bloodstained clothes gathered outside the mosque, searching for relatives. 

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The blast ripped through the shutters of several nearby shops and shattered windows.
In a separate incident a suicide bomber on Friday evening rode a motorbike into a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops in the east of the city killing two paramilitary soldiers.
"A suicide bomber riding on a motorbike hit the mobile van of [paramilitary] rangers in the neighbourhood of North Nazimabad killing two soldiers," senior police official Faisal Noor told AFP.

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One paramilitary soldier who was in the vehicle and two pedestrians, including a women, were also injured, Noor confirmed to AFP. Previously three soldiers were thought to have been wounded.
In January, 61 people were killed in a suicide bombing carried out by a Taliban splinter group at a Shi'ite mosque, the deadliest sectarian incident to hit the country since 2013.
Karachi, a city of 18 million, is rife with criminal, ethnic, political and sectarian killings, which claim hundreds of lives each year.

- AFP