Baku-APA. At least five people were killed and 14 others injured in a bomb blast that hit a political gathering in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, local media and police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
According to the reports, the bomb blast took place near the election campaign office of the Muttahida Quami Movement (United National Movement) in the Nusrat Colony of North Nazimabad area of Karachi.
When blast hit the election campaign office of the political party, dozens of political workers were busy in the preparations for the election campaign in the city.
Rescue teams, police, rangers and other law enforcement agencies' personnel rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where two of the wounded were reportedly in critical condition.
Deputy Inspector General of police Zafar Abbas told media that an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted in a motorcycle, parked nearby the election office, and was detonated with a remote controlled device.
The bomb exploded with a big bang and smashed the window-glass of nearby buildings and damaged many vehicles besides leaving a crater on the ground.
The information department of the party announced that three real brothers were among the killed people.
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari condemned the attack and asked the authorities to provide the best possible treatment facilities to the injured.
According to the local media, the banned militant organization Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the same kind of bomb blast targeted an election office of the same political party in the Chowrangi area of the city that killed five people besides leaving 16 others injured.
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