KARACHI-
Unknown attackers detonated a low-powered bomb on a road housing two schools in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area Tuesday and left a note at the scene warning of more violence if the hanging of militants did not stop.
According to DIG-East Munir Sheikh, no school was directly targeted.
No injuries were reported in the event as students were not present at the schools located in Gulshan-e-Iqbal’s Block 7.
Academic activities in all the schools in the vicinity were suspended after the event.
Photos of the letter, reportedly left by the attackers at the scene, were doing rounds on social media:
And (Reportedly) this was the letter dropped by the attackers after School attack in #Karachi pic.twitter.com/ejXELAcKdG
— شاعرِ جنوب (@syedatifali) February 3, 2015
Evidence has been gathered by the investigators who rushed to the site following the event. Director General Rangers Maj-Gen Bilal Akbar also visited the site.
Meanwhile, provincial Education Minister Nisar Khuhro took notice of the blast and sought a report from Additional Inspector General (AIG) Karachi police.
The incident followed shortly after two sectarian militants were executed in Karachi Central Jail earlier today for the murder of a Shiite Muslim doctor.
Attaullah, alias Qasim, and Mohammad Azam were convicted of killing doctor Ali Raza in 2001 at the busy Soldier Bazaar area of Pakistan’s largest city, which is racked by rising sectarian violence.
A total of 22 people have now been executed since the government brought back hangings in terror cases amid public outrage over a Taliban massacre at a school that left 150 people dead.