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KARACHI, June 10: The brazen attack on a convoy carrying Corps Commander Lt-Gen Ahsan Saleem Hayat left 11 people dead, including seven soldiers and three policemen. It was the sixth deadly attack in Karachi in a month, and brings to 62 the number of people killed in the city since May 7.
Here is a chronology of the killings in Karachi since early May.
MAY 7: A suicide bomber attacks a crowded Shia mosque, killing 23 worshippers.
MAY 8: One person is killed in protests over the previous day's attack.
MAY 25: A parcel bomb explodes at the gate of the Karachi port, killing two people.
MAY 26: Two car bombs explode within 20 minutes of each other outside the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre and near the US consul general's residence, killing one policemen and injuring more than 10 people, mainly policemen and journalists
MAY 30: A religious scholar, Mufti Shamzai, is gunned down in his car while leaving his home.
MAY 31: A suicide bomber blows up a Shia mosque in the middle of evening prayers, killing 21 worshippers. Two people are killed in riots over the mosque attack and Shamzai's assassination.
JUNE 10: Gunmen open fire on a convoy carrying the corps commander of Karachi, killing seven soldiers, three policemen and a pedestrian. - AFP
