Bombs damage rail tracks: officials

Suspected militants blow up railway tracks at four sites in Sindh early Friday, disrupting train services.


Afp February 11, 2011

KARACHI: Suspected militants blew up railway tracks at four sites in Sindh early Friday, disrupting train services, officials said.

There were no casualties when small bombs damaged the tracks near Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah and Mehrabpur districts, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks, police and railway officials said.

"Two low-intensity bombs planted on both the up and down railway tracks went off outside Karachi early morning, causing damage to the tracks," senior police officer Chaudhry Asad told AFP.

Train services were suspended and repair work had begun, he said.

About 30 minutes later two more blasts damaged railway tracks near Hyderabad city, Pakistan Railways official Aftab Memon said.

Two additional blasts on tracks were reported from Nawabshah district and another two in the Sindh area of Mehrabpur, he said.

"All these blasts were similar in nature, causing damage to the track but no casualties," he said.

Home ministry official Sharfuddin Memon blamed militants for the attacks.

"These attacks are linked to the situation in northwest Pakistan and the aim was to target communications networks and create panic among the people," he said.

A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 31 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground on Thursday, an attack the Taliban said was revenge for US drone strikes and local military offensives.

However, attacks by the extremists on infrastructure such as railways are relatively rare.

COMMENTS (6)

Aamir | 13 years ago | Reply This is obvious that wrong doers are not affraid of government and law enforcing agencies. This is clear failure of government and its machinery. This is high time we get rid of this government which is of no use.
Javed Hussain | 13 years ago | Reply The support for taliban and sympathies with them in sindh (interior either in karachi) are not found and moderate & educated people felt that these talibans are terrorist and work against the brotherhood amongst muslims & other communities. Secondly it is quite evident that taliban & other terrorist organisations like TTP has always targeted human lives and security forces and thier campes never had attacked railway tracks or like that. Thirdly they have not yet operated in sindh (not even in karachi) becuase they have no way out in sindh to escape as they can do in northwest. This act of bombing in sindh seems to have no relations with situation in northwest areas of our country but might have been carried out by any other terrorist or inteligence organization. I suspect it is an attempt to disturb peace conditions in sindh, which is better than all provinces and it might be an effort to destroy the congenial environment for investment in Karachi & interior.
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