KARACHI: The car bomb blast has hit the area of Paposh Nagar in the city, Vice Nazim of the area Ihsanullah Khan and police reported saturday, where as two suspects are arrested.

The car bomb blast hit the area of Khilafat Chouk in Paposh Nagar in the city when Muharram procession was on its way from the area.

The car bomb blast has caused 19 people injured in the city.

The hospital sources have confirmed that 19 injured have been brought to hospital. The two injured are in a critical condition.

The injured include Saima, Gazala, Awais, Ijaz, Nadia, Sabeen and a unknown child.

SSP Umer Khatab said that 19 people have been injured in the blast. It was road side planted bomb blast which included four to five kg explosive material. It looked like a remote control bomb that also damaged the car, he added.

Earlier, the hospital sources confirmed that 12 injured have been brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital including two children, woman and policeman.

Earlier, three policemen have been injured in the explosion, police revealed.

The injured people have been brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The relief work is on its way. The police have cordoned off the area.

The initials report indicated that the people ran away from the spot of the car bomb blast.

SHO Paposh Nagar Rao Ihsan said that it was a minor explosion two people have been injured in the explosion. The car bomb explosion caused after the Muharram process has crossed from the area. Bomb Disposal Squad has been investigating that car that exploded and the nature of the explosion would be clear after the report of the Bomb Disposal Squad, he added.

TERRORISTS ACTS IN SINDH 2009

• January 20: In a suspected sectarian incident, unidentified gunmen shot dead a shop owner from the Ahmadiyya community outside his house in the Kotri District of Sindh province.

• February 1: An explosion in the Saddar Town of Karachi killed one person and injured two others. One unidentified man - who fidgeted with the bomb planted in a garbage dump, which caused the explosion - died and two others sustained injuries.

• April 15: A 28-year-old sectarian worker-turned-lawyer was shot dead near Hamdard Dawakhana off the arterial M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi. Mazharul Islam, was a former member of the banned Sunni outfit SSP.

• May 22: Four persons were injured in a cross-fire between two groups after pro-Taliban slogans were found painted on the walls of a church in Surjani Town, Karachi.

• May 24: A senior activist of the banned SSP was shot dead in a target killing. 40-year old Allauddin was the Lines Area Unit in-charge of the banned Sunni outfit, and had earlier worked for the LeJ.

• May 27: Another activist of the banned Sunni outfit SSP was shot dead while his son Sufian was injured by two gunmen near a Tandur in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in the Aziz Bhatti Police limits of Karachi.

• June 5: Mir Yaqub Bizenjo, legislator from Balochistan, three of his relatives and a servant were injured after a parcel bomb exploded in his Defence Society house in Karachi.

• July 15: Unidentified men killed the central legal adviser of the outlawed Sunni group, the SSP, Hafiz Ahmed Buksh, in Model Colony in Karachi.

• July 16: Two more activists of the outlawed SSP, including a guard of the group’s central leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, were killed in Karachi. One of them died at a hospital after being injured in the clash a day earlier while another’s body was recovered from Model Colony.

• August 17: Armed men shot dead Allama Ali Sher Hyderi, chief of the banned SSP, along with his associate Imtiaz Phulpoto at Khairpur in the Sindh province.

• September 18: At least three persons sustained bullet injuries during a sectarian clash, which erupted at Iftar time in the precincts of Soldier Bazaar Police Station at Karachi in Sindh. The clash took place between the Shia community and the people belonging to the Deobandi school of thought over the use of loudspeaker during Iftar.

• November 19: Ghulam Muhammad Waezi, a Shia clericm was shot dead in the Orangi Town area of Karachi, within the jurisdiction of Tori Bungash Police Station.

• November 20: In a suspected sectarian incident, the general secretary of the banned Sunni outfit SSP Karachi chapter, Engineer Ilyas Zubair, was shot dead and provincial information secretary, Qari Shafiqur Rehman Alvi, wounded at Teen Hatti under the Jamshed Quarters Police Station jurisdiction in Karachi.

• December 7: The leader of Pasban-e-Aza, a Shia organization was shot dead by unidentified militants in a suspected sectarian attack in the remit of the Brigade Police Station of Karachi. The slain leader was identified as Syed Shahid Hussain. (News sourced from: SAMAA)