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Karachi commander escapes attack, 10 dead KARACHI, Thursday (Reuters) The army commander in the Pakistani city of Karachi narrowly escaped assassination on Thursday when gunmen attacked his convoy with gunfire and a bomb, killing at least 10 and wounding his driver, officials said. A military spokesman denied that the city's army corps commander, Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, had been the target of the attack and said he was safe. Military spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan said seven soldiers, two policemen and one civilian were killed. The Karachi attack coincided with a fresh round of fighting between the military and al Qaeda-linked militants in a remote tribal region bordering Afghanistan in which dozens were killed. The military said 20 militants were killed in the clashes near the mountain town of Wana that started on Wednesday, many of them foreigners, including Chechens and Uzbeks. A security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said at least 15 security personnel had been killed, but the military declined to confirm this. Witnesses to Thursday's attack in Karachi's smart Clifton district reported about 10 minutes of gunfire followed by a large explosion that shattered windows of nearby shops and apartments. Security forces defused a second bomb. The military officer said it occurred on a road used daily by the corps commander and other top security officials in Pakistan's most populous city. |
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