OPP director survives bomb attack in Karachi

Doctors describe Alimuddin's condition as stable, after he was treated for minor injuries to his upper limb.

KARACHI: Orangi Town Pilot Project's (OPP) head or research and training Saleem Alimuddin was injured after his car came under a bomb attack in Pirabad, Karachi on Wednesday evening. 

Salim Alimuddin was being driven home from his office when unidentified men hurled a low intensity improvised explosive device (IED), cracker, at his car near Pashtun Bazaar in Pirabad at around 7 pm. Pirabad SHO Abdul Moid said that the assailants, following the attack, managed to flee on motorcycle.

Alimuddin was rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he was treated for minor injuries on his upper limb. His condition was described as stable by the Abbasi medico-legal officer, Dr Nadeemuddin.

This was the third attack on officials associated with the Orangi Pilot Project.

The project's director Parveen Rehman was killed in a targeted attack in the same area on March 13, 2013.

Two months after that attack, the head of OPP's Baldia office, Abdul Waheed Khan, was also gunned down in Manghopir area.