Four killed in grenade attack on gambling club in Karachi
KARACHI: Four people were killed and nineteen were injured in a grenade attack near the Lyari area of Karachi on Friday.
According to Express 24/7 correspondent Ahmed Jung, a gambling club Al Fateh Hotel in Chakiwara was the target of the attack. The club is normally filled with at least a hundred people, he added.
The bomb disposal squad says at least 3 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the attack.
The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital, after ambulances managed to reach the site, despite the blockade on Mauripur road due to protest. A scuffle was also reported to have broken out between hospital staff and relatives of the victims due to a lack of medical staff.
The electricity supply in the area was cut after the attack, due to which rescue services also encountered problems in carrying out their work.
Chief Minister Sindh, Qaim Ali Shah has ordered that all gambling dens in Karachi be shut down.
This is the second attack on a gambling den in less than a month. At least 19 people had been killed in an explosion at a gambling den in Karachi’s gang-war infested Lyari area on April 21. The remote-controlled blast, in which two kilogrammes of explosive material was used, also left 35 people injured in the locality known as Jinnahabad Lyari Quarters.
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Four killed in grenade attack on gambling club in Karachi
KARACHI: Four people were killed and nineteen were injured in a grenade attack near the Lyari area of Karachi on Friday.
According to Express 24/7 correspondent Ahmed Jung, a gambling club Al Fateh Hotel in Chakiwara was the target of the attack. The club is normally filled with at least a hundred people, he added.
The bomb disposal squad says at least 3 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the attack.
The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital, after ambulances managed to reach the site, despite the blockade on Mauripur road due to protest. A scuffle was also reported to have broken out between hospital staff and relatives of the victims due to a lack of medical staff.
The electricity supply in the area was cut after the attack, due to which rescue services also encountered problems in carrying out their work.
Chief Minister Sindh, Qaim Ali Shah has ordered that all gambling dens in Karachi be shut down.
This is the second attack on a gambling den in less than a month. At least 19 people had been killed in an explosion at a gambling den in Karachis gang-war infested Lyari area on April 21. The remote-controlled blast, in which two kilogrammes of explosive material was used, also left 35 people injured in the locality known as Jinnahabad Lyari Quarters.