KARACHI: Twenty people, including women and children, were injured after two ball bombs were hurled at a haleem stall in Orangi town, DawnNews reported.
The haleem stall was targeted by unknown men on a motorcycle who threw the bombs at the stand. Fear spread in the neighborhood soon after the attack.
Police and Rangers reached the site of the incident and cordoned off the area.
The injured have been taken to Abbasi Hospital where they are being treated for their wounds.
The cooking of haleem is a tradition during the month of Muharram and is given to mourners observing the holy month.
It may be mentioned that security has been beefed up across the country including Karachi in a bid to thwart terror attacks during Muharram.
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Shuaib Bhat
Nov 03, 2014 02:34am
Inshallah ISI and Pakistan Army will rid our nation of these pests :@ :@ :@!!!
My blood is boiling!!!
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Ali
Nov 03, 2014 02:55am
What did the attackers gain by doing this?
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Aysha
Nov 03, 2014 03:16am
is there any place in pakistan where common people are safe? I used to dream to go to pak, but i now i dread to go, thinking i might not even come back.
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Jenai dau
Nov 03, 2014 03:33am
Then people in Pakistan complain that why do shias take there procession out on the streets causing security to block roads and make there life inconvenient.Well my friends roads are blocked because of the security for the people who are under attack by the extremists.Over here they were not on the streets and were attacked by coward terrorists,so give them a break and stop complaining.
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chacha
Nov 03, 2014 03:43am
Its sickning
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Johndaviss
Nov 03, 2014 05:35am
@Ali We are asking the same question sitting in the other side of the border
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bilal
Nov 03, 2014 05:41am
i went to airport to go pak. changed my mind at the last moment. why endangering yourself when you do not have to...
if my countrymen don't understand how to not allow losers in the governance and how not to give free hand to the defenders of the country to in fact loot the country then nopes!! i will wait to visit my birth place when the bloodshed finishes..
if it does not finish then oh well, im not losing my limb if i didnt go there!! "nature of the beast" and we move on. yup! `cold but thats the way it is..
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sm
Nov 03, 2014 06:52am
Was this an attack on shia's? Utterly deplorable.
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