Karachi Explosion: The target of the attack was not immediately announced. (Repsentational)
Karachi:
One person was killed and 12 injured in a bomb blast late on Thursday in Karachi, police said, just two weeks after a suicide attack by a Pakistani separatist group killed four people in the same city.
The explosion tore through the Saddar neighborhood of Pakistan’s most populous city at around 11pm (1800 GMT).
“Initial investigation suggested that explosives were planted in a motorbike parked near a trash can,” local police officer Sajjad Khan said.
The target of the attack was not immediately announced.
However, Khan said a coast guard vehicle was among “several” damaged in the blast while the one killed was a “passerby”.
Last month, a female suicide bomber killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, in an attack on a minibus carrying staff of a Beijing cultural program in Beijing. learn Karachi.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), an independence group in Pakistan’s largest and poorest province, claimed responsibility for the April 26 attack.
China has made major investments in energy and infrastructure in Balochistan under a $54 billion plan known as the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
However, the program has put Chinese citizens on the fence of Baloch separatists, who say local residents do not see their fair share of wealth from the natural resources in the area.
In April 2021, a suicide bombing at a luxury hotel housing the Chinese ambassador in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, killed four people and injured dozens.
The ambassador was not injured.
And this January, Baloch separatists killed three and wounded 22 in a bomb attack on the eastern megacity of Lahore.
More broadly, Pakistan has been seeing an increase in attacks by militants.
The Pakistan Institute for Security and Conflict Studies says attacks have increased by 24% between March and April.
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