Three consecutive explosions claimed by a little-known separatist group killed four people including two soldiers in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh on Friday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Three consecutive explosions claimed by a little-known separatist group killed four people including two soldiers in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh on Friday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At least a dozen people were also injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shadowy secessionist organization the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, which wants the province to break from the Pakistani federation, said it carried out the attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of the blasts was in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and the capital of Sindh, where a civilian died and eight others including a paramilitary soldier were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That explosion was outside a centre for distribution of government cash handouts, and police believe the target was a vehicle of the Sindh Rangers paramilitary force parked outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second blast was reported in Ghotki district, 500 km north of Karachi, where two Rangers soldiers died along with a passerby, local police chief Furrukh Ali told Reuters.<\/p>\n
The third blast took place in Sindh’s Larkana district, where no casualties were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army has carried out low-intensity attacks in the past, including blowing up train tracks, but its separatist fight has been less violent than that of neighbouring Balochistan province.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army claims the responsibility of Karachi, Ghotki and Larkana attacks,” it tweeted, without giving more details.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Rangers, a wing of the Pakistan Army, have been deployed around Pakistan and played a prominent role in crackdowns on militant and criminals in Karachi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sindh’s Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah ordered an inquiry into Friday’s violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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