Witnesses said they heard a loud blast followed by gunfire along a major road in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar neighbourhood near several universities and Pakistan’s meteorological department.
Three militants were also killed in the attack on the local Sindh Rangers headquarters, Sindh Inspector General Javed Alam Odho told Dawn.
Mohammad Bakhsh said he was praying at a nearby mosque when he heard the blast. “The ground felt like it does when there is an earthquake,” the 40-year-old who runs a restaurant in the area said. “When we came out there was smoke everywhere ... then the gunfire started,” he said, adding the firing went on for around 15 minutes.
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