The first explosion took place on the ramp of the Lyari Expressway Essa Nagri interchange where the vehicle of Karachi’s Metropolitan Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan was attacked in a motorcycle bombing.
The police guard of the KMC Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan, who was identified as Sohail Siddiqui, died in the attack while three persons, including Matanat Ali Khan, his driver Haroon and a city warden Abid were injured but were recovering at Aga Khan Hospital.
The second explosion took place inside a three-storeyed building in the Patel Para area of the city in the limits of Soldier Bazaar police station where three persons were killed and one other injured when they apparently touched a power bomb packed with ball bearings.
Eye witnesses at the site of the first explosion in the Essa Nagri area on Sir Shah Muhammad Suleman road said a motorcycle, packed with explosives and ball bearings, was parked on the Lyari Expressway’s 05 interchange near Essa Nagri and when the official vehicle of Matanat Ali Khan (GSA-588) reached the spot, a huge blast destroyed the double-cabin vehicle.
“I was inside the Madrassa nearby when I heard a huge blast and it shattered all the windowpanes and destroyed the wooden doors of the building. I rushed outside and saw the damaged official vehicle with injured persons inside it”, Maulana Atta-ul-Mustafa, the head of the Bab-ul-Quran seminary, which is a couple of meters away from the site of the explosion, said.
The explosion was so powerful that it destroyed the vehicle of Matanat Ali Khan as the ball bearings used in the explosive device pierced through the vehicle and injured the occupants of the vehicle.
SP Gulshan Muqadas told newsmen after the blast that Matanat Ali Khan’s vehicle was targeted through a remote controlled bomb in a motorcycle which was parked on the ramp of the Lyari Expressway interchange.
“We have started an investigation and are collecting evidence,” he maintained.
Aga Khan Hospital officials confirmed that they received three injured, including Metropolitan Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan, saying his right leg bore the impact of the blast but added all three, including his driver and city warden, were slightly injured and recovering at the hospital.
The police guard of the Metropolitan Commissioner, Sohail Siddiqui, was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) where he succumbed to his injuries within a few minutes of his arrival at the hospital.
A Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) official said a motorcycle was used in the attack on Matanat Ali Khan, which was completely destroyed in the explosion as they found its front wheel at the site of the blast.
“Two to three kilograms of explosives with ball bearings was used in the blast and it was detonated through a remote control,” an official of the BDS said, adding that they were collecting evidence including pieces of the destroyed motorcycle and ball bearings from the crime scene.
In another mysterious explosion in a house in the Patel Para area of the city in the limits of Soldier Bazaar police, at least three people were killed and two others injured, police said.
The explosion took place on the third floor of a three-storeyed building on a 60-yards plot on Business Recorder Road behind Super Hasanzai Hotel, police said, adding that apparently an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was mishandled by the occupants of the building.
“Apparently it was some kind of an IED which was mishandled by the persons present on the third floor of the building,” SSP Raja Umer Khattab of CID told The News.
He said there were marks of ball bearings on the roof and walls of the top floor of the building where explosion took place and added that three people died and one was injured in the blast.
He said the place, Shah House, was rented to a family by Constable Mansoor Shah of Jamshaid Quarters police a few days ago and added that at the time of the explosion, only four to five persons were present in the building.
The Medico-Legal Officer (MLO) at the Civil Hospital said they had received two badly mutilated bodies with huge wounds on them from the Patel Para blast while two persons were brought in an injured condition at the hospital.
Later, one of the injured Mateenuddin, a resident of Lines Area, died at the hospital while being treated.
Soldier Bazaar police said two persons were injured in the blast who were taken into custody, including Imran and added that it was a four to five kg of bomb with ball bearings that went off inside the building.
DSP Qasim Ghauri said the bomb weighing four to five kilogram, was mishandled by the persons inside the building and opined that apparently the dead and injured could have been terrorists, who became victims of their own plot.
Our correspondent adds from Kohat: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack on the metropolitan commissioner in Karachi on Saturday.
Talking to reporters from an undisclosed location, the TTP spokesperson said the attack was carried out by the TTP operatives on the metropolitan commissioner.
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