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Blast flattens ‘safe house’ of militants in Karachi

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Security officials survey while rescue workers shift a dead body at a collapsed house following an explosion in Karachi.—Reuters KARACHI: A portion of a house was flattened here on Friday morning in what was described as an accidental blast that claimed the lives of six militants. “We heard a loud bang at about 7:45am and saw two bodies lying in the debris. A Kalashnikov rifle was beside the bodies,” a witness told Dawn. Police found a cache of arms and ammunition and suicide vests strapped to the two bodies in the house in Baldia Town. The suicide vests were fitted with grenades, they added. Apparently the suicide vest of the third militant accidentally triggered the explosion, causing a grenade to explode, investigators said, adding that the blast also caused a small crater. “The vests were not meant for causing maximum damage because these didn’t have high degree of explosives. The vests were supposed to be used as a last resort in case they were apprehended,” an investi