Over 40 people were killed in Pakistan’s Karachi on Wednesday (May 13) after unidentified gunmen entered a bus and opened fire at a busy city crossing.
According to reports, the bus carried around 60 passengers, including children and most of them were shot at close range.
Eyewitnesses say that six men came on three motorbikes and fired indiscriminately after entering the bus that reportedly belongs to the Al-Azhar Garden Colony – an Ismaili community housing project in the city.
The attack in Karachi is deeply saddening & utterly condemnable. Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased.
Pakistan has over the years suffered at the hands of terrorism and today’s attack highlights the country’s continued vulnerability towards this heinous act.
Here’s a look at the 10 most horrifying terror strikes on Pakistan soil in the last decade.
1. On December 16, 2014, Taliban gunmen stormed an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, almost all of them children.
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2. On September 22, 2013, 82 people were killed after two suicide bombers attacked a Peshawar church.
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3. On January 10, 2013 a twin suicide attack on a snooker club in Shiite Hazara neighbourhood of Quetta killed over 100 people.
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4. In May 2011, close to 100 people were killed after two suicide bombers attacked a police cadet training centre in Charsadda.
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5. On April 3, 2011, two suicide bombers attacked a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan, killing at least 50 people.
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6. On July 9, 2010, 105 people died after a suicide bomber unleashed carnage by blowing himself up in a busy market in the Mohamand tribal district.
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7. On January 1, 2010, 101 people were killed after a suicide car bomb exploded during a village volleyball game in the district of Bannu.
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8. In October 2009, 125 people were killed after a car bomb exploded in a busy Peshawar market.
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9. On September 20, 2008, a suicide truck bomb brought down part of Islamabad’s five-star Marriott hotel, killing 60 people.
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10. In October 2007, explosions in Karachi targeting former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto killed 139 people. She was later assassinated in another suicide attack on December 27.
