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Pakistan: 'Police killed' in Karachi bomb blast Pakistan: Police killed in Karachi 'suicide bomb blast'
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At least eight police officers have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, local media report. A bus carrying Pakistani police officers has been targeted by a suspected suicide bomber, killing at least 11 people on board.
They say dozens of people - policemen and civilians - were injured in the attack which targeted a police vehicle. More than 40 others - mostly police officers - were wounded in the early morning attack in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi.
The bus was hit by an explosives-laden vehicle as it was leaving a police training centre, officials said.
Karachi is Pakistan's biggest and most lawless city.
Hundreds of policemen have lost their lives fighting militants and criminal gangs linked to the city's main ethnic, political and sectarian parties, the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani reports from the city.
Thursday's attack - which no one has yet claimed responsibility for - is one of the bloodiest on police in Karachi in recent months, our correspondent says.
Peace talks
Police said more than 50 officers were on board the bus as it prepared to leave a training centre in the east of the city.
"Apparently an explosive-laden car hit the police van transporting officials," police official Muhammad Iqbal told the AFP news agency."Apparently an explosive-laden car hit the police van transporting officials," police official Muhammad Iqbal told the AFP news agency.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the explosion. Local TV channels showed broken glass and pieces of vehicles scattered around the scene of the blast.
Karachi is Pakistan's largest city with an estimated 18 million residents. Doctors at the city's Jinnah hospital confirmed they had received 11 bodies and said at least 10 of the wounded officers were in a critical condition.
It has been plagued by sectarian, ethnic and political violence for years. The latest attack comes amid talks between the government and the Pakistani Taliban to try and negotiate a peace deal.
On Sunday, gunmen on motorbikes shot dead eight people, including a young girl, in the port city.