Plenty of Vogno magi's Paki customers die in a suicide blast.

KARACHI (AFP) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Pakistani city
of Karachi as Sunni Muslims celebrated the birth of the Prophet
Mohammed, killing at least 47 people including several religious party
leaders, officials said.
The attacker climbed onto a wooden stage in a public park as a crowd of
around 50,000 offered sunset prayers, then approached the religious
leaders and detonated explosives strapped to his body, police said.
Angry mobs waving black flags rampaged through the streets after the
blast, burning motorcycles, cars, a bus and a fire engine, and police
fired teargas and live rounds in the air to disperse them, witnesses
said.
"At least 47 people have died in this incident," Interior Minister
Aftab Sherpao told AFP. He told state television that around 100
injured people had been rushed to hospital.
The blast scattered body parts and corpses dressed in white ceremonial
outfits across Karachi's historic Nishtar Park, while dazed and
bloodstained worshippers wandered through the smoke.
Amid piercing screams and wails of grief, men wearing green turbans
dragged the dead and the most seriously injured to ambulances.
"I was near the back of the stage when I heard a huge explosion and
something hit my head," said 40-year-old worshipper Mohammed Osman.
"When I woke up there were pieces of flesh everywhere."
"It was a suicide bombing," said Karachi police chief Niaz Siddiqi,
adding that the man was wearing the same robes as the Sunni followers.
"The suicide bomber got onto the stage and as they were praying he
exploded himself. We took extra security measures but since he was part
of the group on the stage it was very difficult to prevent."
Police said earlier they suspected the bomb was planted beneath the
stage.
The influential chief of Pakistan's relatively moderate Sunni Tehreek
religious party, Abbas Qadri, died in the blast, party official Abdul
Rafey told AFP.
Qadri, 45, was a firebrand speaker who had a massive following in
volatile Karachi and had survived several attempts on his life in the
past.
The party's deputy chief Akram Qadri and spokesman Iftikhar Bhatti also
died in the blast, along with the leaders of two other moderate Sunni
factions: Hafiz Mohammed Taqi and Hanif Billo.
"Since he was on the stage he was there for a specific purpose, and
most of the leadership were on stage," police chief Siddiqi said.
After the blast religious leaders called from the remains of the stage
for volunteers to go to hospital and donate blood.
Witnesses said the massive blast also triggered panic and a mob of up
to 5,000 people fought running battles with riot police, which
continued hours after the explosion.
Some of the faithful also surrounded local hospitals, where they
chanted and waved their fists in the air as bodies covered in
bloodstained white sheets were stretchered inside, television footage
showed.
Military ruler President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat
Aziz strongly condemned the "heinous act" and ordered security to be
stepped up at mosques, a government statement said.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but militants from
Pakistan's majority Sunni and minority Shiite communities have a
history of violence that has claimed thousands of lives in the past 10
years.
Karachi itself has a history of political, sectarian and ethnic
violence.
In March a US diplomat and two other people were killed in a suicide
attack a day ahead of a visit to Islamabad by US President George W.
Bush. Tuesday's attack was the deadliest in the city since a suicide
bomber blew himself up during evening prayers in a Shiite mosque in May
2004, killing 22 people.

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