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Posted on 07/16/2003 11:05:29 AM PDT by New Horizon
Homemade Bomb Explodes at Pakistani Hospital, Injuring Seven: PoliceHYDERABAD, Pakistan (AP) - A homemade bomb exploded Wednesday at a hospital in southern Pakistan, injuring at least seven people, city police chief Iqbal Sarhandi said. Sarhandi said the victims were relatives of patients who were sitting on a veranda outside a ward when the bomb exploded at the hospital in Hyderabad, 60 miles north of the port city of Karachi.
No arrests were made.
"It was a homemade device," Sarhandi said after an initial check by investigators and bomb disposal experts.
In recent years, southern Sindh province has been rocked by explosions in terrorist attacks.
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