BREAKING NEWS:: Two blasts hit Pakistan city of Karachi

::BREAKING NEWS:: 
Two blasts hit Pakistan city of Karachi

Two blasts hit Pakistan city of Karachi

At least one person killed and 12 wounded in two separate suicide attacks in the country's commercial hub. 

 

A bomb exploded near a bus carrying navy officials in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi, wounding at least 12, police said.

Captain Salman Ali, a Pakistan Navy spokesman, confirmed the incident in the residential "Defence" neighbourhood on Tuesday but said he had no other details.

"We are busy in rescue work and 15 wounded have been shifted to the hospital," Ali said by telephone on Tuesday.

A second attack happened in a the Baldiya neighbourhood, police said, but offered no further details.

At least one person has been killed in that attack according to local media.

Karachi, the country's commercial hub, has a long history of bloody feuds between rival ethnic, political and sectarian groups, in which hundreds of people have been killed.

Armed fighters linked to al Qaeda and Taliban have also carried out attacks in the city in the past.

In another development, at least 12 people were killed in southern Pakistan after a bus was torched on a national highway, early on Tuesday.

Footage broadcast by Express TV showed the passenger bus in flames after the attack.

According to local media, four armed men opened fire on the bus and then set fire to it as it arrived at a hotel, near Sibi in Balochistan province.

No one has been arrested over the incident. The passenger bus was on its way to Quetta from Peshawar.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies