Bomb blast hurts 24 Suparco employees

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Bomb blast hurts 24 Suparco employees

KARACHI: Twenty-four employees of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) were injured in a bomb attack near their bus on the main Hub River Road in Saeedabad on Wednesday evening, a group calling itself the Lashkar-e-Balochistan claimed responsibility for the attack,  Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on 11 July, 2012.

SHO Saeedabad Police Station Chaudhry Mohammed Irshad said that Suparco employees were on their way home on the official bus after signing off for the day when a remote-controlled bomb planted on a bicycle went off.

Senior Superintendent of Police Amir Farooqi told Dispatch News Desk (DND) that the bomb weighed about three kilograms but it did not contain any splinters.

DND

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