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- No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack on the police station in Karachi’s Saddar
- Pakistan, battling twin insurgencies, has witnessed a surge in militant violence in recent months
KARACHI: Three policemen were injured in a grenade attack on a police station in Pakistan’s commercial capital of Karachi, police said on Saturday, a day after a deadly bombing in the country’s northwest killed six people.
Karachi, which is home to over 15 million people, has a history of attacks on police by organized gangs involved in drug trafficking and land grabbing as well as by militant groups.
Mehzor Ali, a senior superintendent of police (SSP), said unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade incident the Preedy police station in Karachi’s Saddar business district at 12:16am on Saturday.
“No group has claimed responsibility for the attack,” he told reporters in Karachi. “Bomb disposal squad has been summoned and the incident is being investigated.”
The development came a day after a deadly bombing killed a top cleric among six people at a mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, according to officials.
The blast occurred during Friday prayers at Darul Uloom Haqqania, one of Pakistan’s largest and most influential religious seminaries.
Separately on Friday, nine people, including a paramilitary troop, were injured in a roadside blast in Quetta in the southwestern Balochistan province, police said.
No group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks either, but Pakistan has been battling twin insurgencies — one mounted by religiously motivated groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country’s northwest and the other by ethnic Baloch separatists in Balochistan.