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To: goldworldnet who wrote (3014)	4/11/2006 12:51:31 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Karachi blast kills 40 - reports Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Posted: 12:11 p.m. EDT (16:11 GMT) (CNN) -- An explosion at a celebration of Prophet Mohammed's birthday has killed at least 40 people and sparked a confrontation between Muslims and Karachi police, according to Pakistan's interior minister and local media reports. No claims of responsibility were made after Tuesday's blast, but sectarian violence between Sunni and minority Shiite Muslims has killed hundreds in Pakistan, and Karachi in particular, over the past two decades. The explosion, which happened shortly before 5 p.m. (1200 GMT) at Nishtar Park in the southern port city of Karachi, ripped through a stage set up by Jumaat Ahle Summat, a predominantly Sunni group, Pakistani media reported. Speaking on Pakistani television on Tuesday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Shairpao said the death toll was expected to rise above 40. At least 70 others were injured and all hospitals were put on high alert, according to the reports. Several thousand people were at the rally when the blast detonated during a break for prayer. After the explosion, people at the rally protested and confronted police on the scene. Television pictures showed bodies on the ground and wounded being taken to hospitals in vans after the blast, according to Reuters. "What we know at this point is that there was a blast ... and that there are some injured who are being taken to the hospitals," Jehangir Mirza, police inspector general for Sindh province, told the news agency. "I cannot tell the number of those injured at the moment." In February, at least 40 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Shiite procession in the town of Hangu in the country's North West Frontier Province.