Summary Municipal Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan was targeted by a bomber in Essa Nagi area.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Three persons were killed Saturday night as a result of two blasts shook two Karachi areas Saturday evening.
In the first blast Municipal Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan was targeted by a remote controlled bomb.
The injured commissioner was shifted to hospital where he is stated to be in serious condition.
According to police, Matanat was travelling in a double cabin vehicle when the blast took place as a result of which the vehicle was completely damaged.
Later. a guard of Matanat Ali Khan succumbed to injures in the hospital.
According to police, some unknown men lobbed a hand grenade at the vehicle of Municipal Commissioner Matanat Ali Khan near Esa Nagri, close to the busy Hasan Square area.
A few minutes later, another explosion took place in a house in Patel Para area in which three persons were reported dead and several others were injured.
According to eye witnesses, the Patel Para blast took place in the third floor of a residential building.
The blast was so powerful that the windowpanes of nearby buildings were broken.
Police and rescue teams reached the sites of the blasts and started recue activities.
Initially the nature of the blasts could not be determined but sources suspect that a bomb was being manufactured in the house.
According to initial media reports, an explosion ripped through a house in the congested Patel Para neighbourhood, close to the center of the city.
The government officer was wounded along with three other people.
