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11 children killed in blast near football stadium in Karachi

Islamabad, Aug 7: At least 11 children were killed and 24 others injured, some of them critically, when a bomb kept on a motorbike exploded outside a football stadium in Lyari locality of Karachi  late




The blast took place in the impoverished Lyari neighbourhood of the city after a football match.

“The bomb was planted on a motorbike that was parked outside the stadium, killing seven people, many of them teenage boys,” police official Tariq Dharejo said.

The bomb went off near the vehicle of a Sindh minister, Javed Naghori, who was leaving after witnessing the  late night match between two local teams in Lyari where football is very popular.

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