Karachi Saddar bombing | |
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Location | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Date | 12 May 2022 |
Deaths | 1 |
Injured | 13 |
Perpetrator | Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA) [1] |
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. [2] [3] [6] [7]
The Baloch Liberation army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that it was carried out in retaliation for the government's crackdown on the group's activities. [8]
The bombing in the Saddar neighbourhood was claimed by a little-known terrorist group called the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA). [1] [9]
Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shahbaz released a statement condemning the bombing. [10]
A prime facilitator of the attack, Allah Dino, along with another terrorist of SRA were killed in Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) raid in Keamari area on 18 May. [11] [12]
On 22 May, CTD arrested Manzoor Hussain, an accomplice of Allah Dino, from Hyderabad’s Subhan Colony. Hussain was involved in damaging railway tracks and had also unsuccessfully tried to conduct an IED blast on 23 March. [13]
On April 5, 2010, two bombings in Pakistan killed up to 50 people and injured 100 more. In the first attack the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar was attacked by militants. The coordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and attackers who tried to enter the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar by using grenades and weapons fire. Three explosions went off within a span of 15 minutes in the area of Saddar and Hayatabad Avenue, near the American consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's intelligence agency. Several militants came in two vehicles. The first vehicle exploded near a security checkpoint, and gunmen in the second car opened fire. A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman claimed responsibility for the assault on the consulate. In Timergara, Lower Dir district an Awami National Party rally came under attack. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq said "Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks."
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