PAKISTAN: Explosion rips through bus injuring six passengers

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Att.Editors: The following item is from the Qatar News Agency (QNA)

KARACHI, May 10 2003 (IPS) - A powerful bomb ripped through a passenger bus in southern Sindh province on Saturday, injuring six people, police said.

No one immediately took responsibility for the explosion in Hyderabad, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the port city of Karachi.

The bus had arrived from Nowshera-Feroz, 30 km from Hyderabad, en route to Karachi when the explosion occurred, police said.

Investigators and bomb disposal experts were on the scene.

No arrests have been made and police refused to speculate about who may have been behind the explosion.