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Bomb blasts in KFC KARACHI, Sep 10 (AFP) - Twin bomb blasts wounded eight people at crowded KFC and McDonald's fast food restaurants in Pakistan's violence-plagued southern city of Karachi early Friday, a senior provincial official said. Rauf Siddiqui, interior minister of southern Sindh province, said the explosions were linked to a nationwide strike called by opposition parties on Friday, but the opposition denied any involvement. "We have very strong suspicions that the blasts were in connection with the opposition strike call," Siddiqui told AFP, adding that no one had been arrested yet in connection with the attacks. "Eight people were injured, mainly by flying glass," Siddiqui said. The first explosion happened in the KFC in Karachi's upscale Defence district at around 12:40 am (1940 GMT), injuring a number of people including a baby girl and her family, police and witnesses said. The device planted on the restaurant's mezzanine level shattered its plate glass windows and blew a hole in a concrete wall. "I was having a meal by myself when I heard a big explosion and all the windows were blown in," witness Mohammed Nehan told AFP. "The family near me were all rushed to hospital afterwards." The second blast happened behind the kitchen at a crowded McDonald's kiosk around two kilometres (more than one mile) on the Karachi seafront. There were no injuries. |
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