25 INCLUDING 5 MQM WORKERS, A HAQ PARAST UC NAZIM MARTYRED IN KARACHI TWIN BLASTS:
A motorcycle rigged with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Azadaraan near the Nursery bridge in Karachi Friday, killing 12 people while a second explosion inside Jinnah Hospital left at least 13 people dead. Nearly 100 people were wounded in the twin blasts, reports said. Martyred include six MQM workers who were in the hospital to donate the blood and assist in rescue operation.

“Twelve people were martyred and 50 injured in the first blast. There are children and women among the killed and wounded,” Dr. Seemin Jamali, Head of the Emergency Department at Jinnah Hospital in Karachi, said.

An hour after the first attack, a second explosion was heard outside the emergency ward of Jinnah Hospital where the injured were being shifted. The second blast was also caused by an explosives-laden motorcycle in the hospital's parking lot that left at least 13 people dead, while many others were injured, a bomb disposal official Munir Sheikh said.
The building of the hospital and three ambulances were also damaged by the blast, which took place ten metres away from the main gate.

Another bomb was found inside a television outside Jinnah Hospital, DawnNews reported. The bomb disposal squad said that 25 kg of explosives were found inside the television.

The attacks, in a city largely isolated from bombings concentrated in northwest Pakistan but with a history of sectarian tensions and political violence, underscored the security challenges facing the country.