Blast ravages Shia neighbourhood

Published March 4, 2013
A man, who lost a relative in a bomb blast, reacts at a hospital's morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
A man, who lost a relative in a bomb blast, reacts at a hospital's morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
A man reacts next to the body of a relative who was killed in a bomb blast, at a hospital's morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
A man reacts next to the body of a relative who was killed in a bomb blast, at a hospital's morgue in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
People gather at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
People gather at the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013.?Photo by AP
Children, who were slightly injured in a bomb blast, are brought to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shia Muslims in the southern city of Karachi.?Photo by AP
Children, who were slightly injured in a bomb blast, are brought to a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shia Muslims in the southern city of Karachi.?Photo by AP
People gather as firefighters try to extinguish fire at the site of bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
People gather as firefighters try to extinguish fire at the site of bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
People gather at the site of bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
People gather at the site of bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
Rescuers search for victims at the site of the bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
Rescuers search for victims at the site of the bomb blast in Karachi on March 3, 2013.?Photo by AFP
Pakistani medics carry the lifeless body of a man from the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shia Muslims in Karachi.?Photo by AP
Pakistani medics carry the lifeless body of a man from the site of a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 3, 2013. Pakistani officials say a bomb blast has killed dozens of people in a neighborhood dominated by Shia Muslims in Karachi.?Photo by AP

At least 45 people, many women and children among them, were killed and over 135 injured in a massive bombing in the city’s Shia-dominated neighbourhood of Abbas Town on Sunday evening.

The explosion took place at the time of Maghrib prayers between two apartment blocks at the entrance to Abbas Town.—Images by Agencies

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