Woman injured, clothes container damaged as rockets hit Pakistan International Container Terminal’s Docks Colony and Agra Taj neighbourhoods
The security agencies are on their toes as unidentified terrorists fired at least three rockets at the strategic Karachi port.
According to the area residents, two huge explosions terrorised the port area between 10 and 11pm on Wednesday night.
The rockets, which a Karachi Port Trust (KPT) spokesman said were fired from an unidentified location, landed at Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT), Keamari’s Docks Colony and Agra Taj neighbourhoods.
“These were sort of stray rockets fired without targeting a certain place,” sources privy to the matter told Pakistan Today. The security agencies, they said, were ascertaining the location from where the terrorist attack was launched.
The rockets did not cause a major damage to the life and property at the explosion sites except a woman who was injured in the Docks Colony blast and is under treatment at Ziauddin Hospital.
One of the rockets that landed in the PICT misfired and partially damage a container stuffed with second-hand clothes.
“The rocket was fired from an unidentified place and due to heavy wind, it landed at PICT at a container containing old clothes,” said the KPT spokesman adding the security personnel shifted the affected container to a safer place soon after the attack.
The sources said the rockets were fired from a location which was out of their “killing range”.
Accompanied by PML-N MPAs Humayun Khan and Soorat Thebo, Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Senator Kamran Michael Thursday visited the injured woman in the hospital and ordered her free treatment.
The federal minister, according to KPT spokesman, visited the targeted container terminal, PICT, and declared “red alert” at the country’s largest seaport where dozens of vessels with local and international flags keep calling on daily basis.
The fresh incident of terrorism must be taken seriously by the country’s embattled security apparatus as it was just last month on May 6 and 7 when the strategically-located oil installation at Keamari had come under attack with terrorists planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) under different oil tankers.
