2002 Karachi bus bombing

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2002 Karachi bus bombing
Location Karachi, Pakistan
Date May 8, 2002
Attack type Suicide attack
Deaths 13
Injured 40

The 2002 Karachi bus bombing was one of a series of deadly strikes on Westerners in Pakistan in 2002.

Details

On May 8, 2002, a man driving a car bomb stopped next to a bus in Karachi outside the Sheraton Hotel. He detonated the car, ripping the bus apart, and killing himself, 11 Frenchmen, and 2 Pakistanis. The 11 Frenchmen were engineers working with Pakistan to design an Agosta 90B class submarine for the Pakistani Navy. About 40 others were wounded.

It is suspected[citation needed] that those responsible for the attack have links to al-Qaeda, and are seeking to oust Westerners from that country following the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. On September 18, 2002, a man named Sharib Zubair was arrested and believed to have masterminded the attack. In 2003, two men were sentenced to death for the bombing by a Karachi court. The suspected bombmaker, Mufti Mohammad Sabir, was arrested on September 8, 2005.

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