Van Blast in Pakistan's Karachi Kills Four
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A blast ripped through a passenger van on Tuesday in Pakistan's busy southern port city of Karachi, killing four people, police said, but it was not immediately clear if the incident was the result of a planted device or a suicide attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which took place near a university campus.
"It is too early to say what kind of a blast it is," police officer Muqaddas Haider told reporters. "We have a confirmation of four deaths, but I can't say anything about their identities," Reuters reported.
He declined to confirm domestic television reports that some foreigners were among the occupants of the van, including three Chinese women.
A grouping of Sunni militant outfits, Pakistani Taliban or Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has links to al Qaeda and Daesh (ISIL or ISIS), recently said it had sent suicide bombers to carry out attacks in the south Asian nation.
