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| Six killed in Karachi explosion | |
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| At least six people have been killed in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Karachi, local reports say. | |
| The blast happened in Balida Town, a poor neighbourhood of the southern city, Pakistan's commercial hub. | The blast happened in Balida Town, a poor neighbourhood of the southern city, Pakistan's commercial hub. |
| The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but local TV showed footage of a destroyed building. | The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but local TV showed footage of a destroyed building. |
| In December, a suicide bomb attack on a Shia Muslim march in Karachi, claimed by the Taliban, killed 43 people and injured dozens more. | In December, a suicide bomb attack on a Shia Muslim march in Karachi, claimed by the Taliban, killed 43 people and injured dozens more. |
| "There was a blast in a house in [Karachi's] Balida Town in which six people were killed. The house collapsed. We are trying to ascertain the exact nature of the blast," senior police official Abdul Majeed Dasti told the AFP news agency. | |
| He said hand grenades and a Kalashnikov rifle had been found at the site of the explosion. | |
| Pakistan has seen an upsurge in violence in recent months. | |
| Hundreds of civilians have died in bomb attacks as Pakistan's army concludes an offensive against Taliban militants in South Waziristan and surrounding areas. |