The Telegraph UK
written by Staff
Thursday January 10, 2013
More than a hundred people were killed in a series of bombings and shootings in Pakistan on Thursday.
In Pakistan's commercial capital, Karachi, 10 people were killed in two separate incidents.
According to local media, five people were shot dead on the outskirts of the city by assailants who fled the scene.
Five others were also shot dead by gunmen riding on motorcycles.
Gul Amin Shah, the father of one of the victims, said: "Six people, riding on three motorcycles, stopped the boys and then opened fire at them from close range."
Meanwhile, a bomb in a crowded Sunni mosque in the northwest city of Mingora killed 22 people and wounded more than 70, police said.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
There were also two deadly blasts in the southwest city of Quetta.
A bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area of the city killed 12 people and wounded more than 40 others, a senior police officer said.
And 81 people died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall.
The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.
The billiard hall was hit by twin blasts about five minutes apart on Thursday night, killing 81 people and wounding more than 120 others, said a senior police officer.
The billiard hall was located in an area dominated by Shiite Muslims, and most of the dead and wounded were from the minority sect, said another police officer.
Many of the people who rushed to the scene after the first blast and were hit by the second bomb, which caused the roof of the building to collapse, he said.
Police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion were also among the dead, police said.
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