Blast Outside KFC in Pakistan Kills Three
- From: "GWhyte" <gwhyte3003@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:15:01 -0500
Blast Outside KFC in Pakistan Kills Three
By Afzal Nadeen, Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Karachi, Pakistan - A powerful car bomb exploded outside
the front entrance to a KFC restaurant in the southern
Pakistan city of Karachi early Tuesday, killing at least
three people and injuring 12 others, police said.
The blast, which went off about 8:45 a.m., badly damaged
the restaurant, part of the global American fast food
chain, burning several cars along the street in front.
Mushtaq Shah, Karachi's police chief, told reporters the
bomb was concealed in a car parked outside the
restaurant.
Another police official, Sanaullah Abbasi, said three
people were killed in the blast and 12 injured.
The bomb struck as commuters were heading to offices and
shops in the crowded business hub. Hundreds of people
gathered at the site near the Pearl Intercontinental
Hotel that is popular with foreign tourists and business
people.
"I can see that the KFC building is burning, six cars
have caught fire and injured people are lying on the
road," said Saeed Mohammad, a traffic police official who
rushed to the scene after hearing the blast.
Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is a hotbed of Muslim
militancy and previous bombings in the city have been
linked to Islamic extremists opposed to Pakistani
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's close ties to the
United States. Pakistan has been a key ally in the
struggle against Muslim extremists tied to al-Qaida and
Afghanistan's former Taliban regime.
Pakistan's information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed,
condemned the blast, calling it the work of the "enemies
of Pakistan."
The restaurant occupies the ground floor of a government
office building housing the Pakistan Industrial
Development Corporation. Firefighters prevented the blaze
from spreading to other parts of the building.
Two bodies were pulled from the KFC restaurant while
another man lay dead at the restaurant's entrance,
eyewitnesses said. The injured included security guards
at the building and nearby banks.
It was the second attack on Western fast food restaurants
in Karachi in recent months. Bombs struck KFC and
McDonalds restaurants in Karachi in September, injuring
three people in attacks suspected of being linked to a
nationwide strike called by a hardline Islamic coalition
opposed to Musharraf.
A KFC restaurant in Karachi was also burned in May,
killing six workers inside during an outbreak of
religious violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups
in the city.
More at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_bomb
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