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US diplomat, 3 others killed in Karachi blasts

An American diplomat was killed in deadly bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Thursday, which also killed three other persons, including a Pakistani paramilitary soldier.
Smoke billows from burning vehicles after a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan March 2, 2006. (Photo: Xinhua)

    ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- An American diplomat was killed in deadly bomb blasts in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Thursday, which also killed three other persons, including a Pakistani paramilitary soldier.

    U.S. President George W. Bush, currently in New Delhi, confirmed the death of the American citizen in the blast near the American consulate.

    Bush said that an American Foreign Service officer was killed in the bombing.

    "We have lost at least one U.S. citizen in the bombing, a Foreign Service officer, and I send our country's deepest condolences to that person's loved ones and family," he said. Full Story>>

2 confirmed dead, over 30 injured in blast in southern Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- At least two people were killed and some 30 others were injured in a car bomb blast near the American consulate in the Pakistani southern port city of Karachi early Thursday, a provincial minister said.  Full Story

7 injured in blast in southern Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- At least seven people were injured in two bomb blasts Thursday morning in the southern Pakistani Karichi, local press reports said.  Full Story

Urgent: Bomb explosion outside U.S. consulate in Karachi

    ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- At least seven people were injured in two bomb blasts Thursday morning in the southern Pakistani Karichi, local press reports said.  Full Story

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