Karachi bomb attack | |
Location: | Karachi, Pakistan |
Type: | Bomb blast |
Fatalities: | 9 |
Injuries: | 15 |
Perps: | Unknown |
Target: | Sindh High Court justice Maqbool Baqar's convoy |
On 26 June 2013, a bomb exploded near Burns Road killing nine people and injuring fifteen in Karachi, Pakistan.[1] The bomb was intended to blow up Sindh High Court justice Maqbool Baqar's convoy. The bomb was located on a motorbike near a mosque. Five of the people killed in the bomb explosion were police officers.[2] [3] On 17 July 2013, DIG South Dr Ameer Sheikh claimed that police arrested Bashir Leghari, suspected of being the mastermind of the attack on the judge's convoy, along with two of his accomplices in an operation carried out in Karachi's Surjani Town.[4] [5]