Blast kills 10 people at mosque in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- A powerful bomb exploded at a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with worshippers in this southern port city today, killing 10 people and wounding scores of others, police and witnesses said.
The attack occurred shortly after 1 p.m. at a mosque inside a government-run religious school, shattering windows and pocking the walls with shrapnel. Bits of flesh and pools of blood lay all around as rescue workers tended to the wounded.
The school, which houses students ages 4-18, has separate mosques for Sunni and Shiite Muslim worshippers. Witnesses said the school had let out early, as usual today. Most of the victims were adults who came to the mosque for prayers.
There was no word on the motive. Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and home to several radical Islamic groups, has been hit by frequent acts of terrorism and sectarian violence.
A list posted outside Karachi's Civil Hospital recorded nine deaths from the blast, and 45 hurt.
Dr. Hamid Ali, a doctor at the hospital, said about 100 others had either been released after treatment for minor injuries or transferred to other hospitals.
Another casualty and five more injured were taken to the city's Jinnah Hospital, an official there said on condition of anonymity.
Sadir Durrani, a police explosives expert at the site of the blast at the Sindh Madrassah tul Islam school, said he had found no timing or radio devices, indicating it may have been caused by a suicide bomber.
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One injured man described the devastation.
"I was inside the mosque for Friday prayers when a bomb exploded with a huge bang," Kalb e-Abbas, 23, told The Associated Press. Something hit my arm, and I saw blood all over my body."