No information about who targeted the newly appointed officer has surfaced. PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS
KARACHI: A number of small intensity bombs exploded at multiple locations in Sindh on Tuesday evening within a span of three hours, Express News reported.
In the first attack, a cracker exploded in the up-market neighbourhood of Zamzam of Karachi. The attack caused panic to spread in the area and forced shops to close. Though fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.
The attack happened soon after the first female Station House Officer (SHO) Ghazala Javed took charge of her office.
DIG Abdul Khaliq Shaikh confirmed that the blast that caused waves in the area was most probably from a detonated grenade.
Later, talking to the media she said the attack had nothing to with her appointment as the SHO, and that it was not a 'welcome'.
A short while later, a bomb explosion was reported at a store in Buffer Zone where a child was also reported to have been injured.
A planted low-intensity improvised explosive device went off near Perfume Chowk in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. The explosion damaged a car.
Attacks in various parts of Sindh
A number of bombs went off at numerous locations in Sindh, including five in Hyderabad in just fifteen minutes.
Small intensity blasts went off in Latifabad, Wahdat Colony, Hussainabad, Sehrish Nagar, and near Radio Pakistan.
A total of 12 such explosions were reported.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly noted that SHO Ghazala Javed had been attacked. The error is regretted.
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