45 killed, 150 injured in twin blasts in Karachi, Pakistan

（Xinhua） 19:07, March 04, 2013

A man tries to identify the body of his relative at a hospital in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, March 4, 2013. At least 45 people were killed and 150 others injured when twin blasts hit a residential area in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Sunday night. (Xinhua/Arshad)

ISLAMABAD, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Five people succumbed to their injuries on Monday following Sunday night's twin bomb blasts in a densely populated Shia residential area in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, bringing the death toll to 45, officials said.

Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, Commissioner of Karachi, said that unknown militants parked an explosive-laden car outside a residential building in Abbas Town in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province.

He said the car bomb blast that was triggered off by a remote- control device targeted a group of Shia Muslims coming out of a mosque after evening prayer.

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