By Our Staff Reporter
Karachi: Terrorist attack in Karachi killed ten people including women and children, mostly from same family on Saturday late at night.
According to police it was a grenade attack on a truck near Baldia Town’s Mawach Goth area in Karachi on Saturday night. The attack perished five members of a same family hailing from Swat , Pakistan’s famous tourist district in Khyber Pakhtoonkhaw province.
Correspondent of Islamabad Telegraph from Karachi quoted Senior official of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Raja Umer Khattab as saying that initial investigations showed that it was a grenade attack. He said that the grenade exploded before it could hit the floor of the vehicle.
He said that initial investigations showed that the attackers were on a motorcycle.
South Zone DIG Javed Akbar Riaz told reporters that that the incident took place around 9:45pm and the truck was carrying between 20-25 people. The passengers were returning home after attending a marriage ceremony, he said
sourves from counter terrorism told Telegraph’s correspondent that circumstance show it was an act of target killing as bike-riding terrorists’s target was a mini truck which was carrying almost two and half dozen people including men, women and kids.
“it can be an act of target killing. Old enmity between the terrorists and victims can not be ruled out. Victims belong to family of a noted personality of Jamat i Islami, said a source.
Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah directed police officials and the district administration to shift the injured to nearby hospitals.
As per local media reports, Chief minister also sought a report from the provincial transport minister about the vehicle, enquiring whether the truck belonged to Sindh or another province.
He also directed the transport minister to provide details about the vehicle’s fitness certificate and the cause of the explosion.
Shah also directed the health secretary to shift the injured to the Burns Centre of Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi for treatment