CTD registers FIR in Quaidabad explosion case under Anti-Terrorism Act

The Counter-Terrorism Department registered on Saturday an FIR against unknown suspects involved in a bomb blast in Karachi’s Quaidabad Friday night.

Two people were killed and nine others injured in the explosion near the Quaidabad Bridge.

The FIR was registered under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

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An explosive device was planted under a fruit seller’s cart, CTD and BDS officials told SAMAA TV.  According to the BDS, it was a timed explosion. A second bomb found in a food container near the site of the explosion was disarmed.