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CNN Live At Daybreak

Car Bomb Kills Eight in Pakistan

Aired June 14, 2002 - 06:02   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to take you now to Pakistan, where witness report a horrifying scene outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi. It came after a car bomb attack.

Journalist Azhar Abbas joins us on the phone from Karachi with an update.

Good morning.

AZHAR ABBAS, GOTV REPORTER: Good morning.

COSTELLO: Can you tell us what happened?

ABBAS: Well, actually, it was huge blast, a very powerful bomb that was in a car. And according to the police, they are still saying that it was a suicide bomb attack. And they kind of parked the car near the consulate, and the bomb exploded, killing, as we just mentioned, eight people, and about 40 injured.

It was a horrific scene. I've just talked to the doctors at the main city hospital, and they're saying that a couple of them are seriously injured and may not survive even.

So that's the latest.

COSTELLO: Any Americans hurt in the blast?

ABBAS: No. I checked with the U.S. Embassy, in Islamabad, and the consulate here. No Americans were injured. But the officials had said that a few Pakistani officials working in the U.S. Consulate with minor injuries because of the glass -- the U.S. Consulate glass -- that breaks.

COSTELLO: Tell us who's responsible for this.

ABBAS: Well, so far, up until this, there's no news as such. No one has claimed responsibility. But the city police chief I've been talking to, Kamal Shah, had said that it seems that the al Qaeda or any group which has sympathies with al Qaeda is behind that. They don't have any proof, he said -- that they don't have any proof of that. But the attack is almost the same, the same type of attack; the modus operandi was the same as that of the May 8 attack, a suicide bombing, outside the Sheraton Hotel, in which the French nationals were killed. COSTELLO: All right, thank you very much for that update, Azhar Abbas, live on the phone from Karachi, Pakistan, this morning.s

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