Karachi Mourns 42 Bombing Dead as Attacks on Shiites Spread
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Karachi shut schools and businesses to mourn 42 people killed in a car bombing that targeted the city’s Shiite minority and extended a spree of deadly attacks on the Islamic sect to Pakistan’s finance capital.
Women and children were among the dead and more than 135 were wounded in the blast yesterday in a Shiite-dominated neighborhood of the city, the country’s biggest. Apartments and shops were reduced to rubble. While no group has yet claimed responsibility, the Sunni militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has carried out previous assaults on Shiites.