Policemen shift an injured colleague after a twin bombing rocked the Pakistani city of Karachi on January 24, 2013.
At least four people, including three police officers, have been killed and nine others injured in a twin bombing in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
The incident took place at Karachi’s impoverished neighborhood of Sherpao Colony on Thursday.
“Four people have been killed in the twin blasts, three of them are policemen. There are nine others injured which include three policemen and six civilians,” said Doctor Seemi Jamali, the director of Jinnah Hospital.
“The remote control devices were planted on a garbage dump. The first explosion did not damage anything but when policemen and civilians reached the site, there was a second blast, which hurt them,” said Karachi Commissioner Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi.
A senior police official is reportedly among the dead.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing, but officials put the blame on pro-Taliban militants who have carried out similar assaults in the past.
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001 when Pakistan joined an alliance with the United States in the so-called war against terrorism.
Since late 2009, there has been a surge in militant attacks in Pakistan. Thousands have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping the country.
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