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PTI | 11:09 PM,Sep 01,2010The firing started when the procession was passing through Empress market in Saddar, one of the oldest markets of Karachi.This was the latest in a series of attacks targeting religious minorities and shrines in Lahore. Ninety-five members of the minority Ahmedi sect were killed in suicide attacks on two mosques in May while 45 people died when two suicide bombers targeted the Data Darbar shrine in July. Television images of the two blast sites in Lahore showed people running helter-skelter following the explosions with some of the injured victims writhing in pain. In Karachi, City police chief Waseem Ahmed said initial investigations indicated that the firing occurred between two groups. Tension prevailed as shops shut down in the area after the participants of the procession staged a stand-off with law enforcement agencies and demanded that the arrested men be handed over to them. Terrorists had also targeted the Ashura and Chehlum processions of Shia Muslims last December and January evoking a strong reaction from the strong Shia population in the city. On Ashura a suicide bomber had blown himself up in the process killing around 40 people. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the suicide blasts and said the attackers would not escape justice.
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