KARACHI, Aug 8 (AFP) - At least seven people were killed and dozens injured when two bombs exploded Sunday near an Islamic seminary in the Pakistani city of Karachi, witnesses and police officials said.
Both devices went off near a restaurant next to the Sunni religious school in the restive southern port city, which has been riven for decades by sectarian violence.
"There was an explosion in a restaurant close to Jamia Binoria seminary which was followed by another big blast caused by a bomb fitted in a motorbike parked outside the restaurant," city police chief Fayyaz Leghari told AFP.
An AFP correspondent saw the bodies of four seminary students in the city`s Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
Doctor Syed Mazhar said two of the injured died in the hospital. A six-year-old child is also among the dead. Some of the injured are in critical condition, Mazhar added.
Hayan Ahmed, an 18-year-old religious student, said he was taking snacks and tea at the restaurant when the first bomb went off and as he came out he was injured by the second blast.
Mohammad Yar, a teacher at the Islamic seminary -- or Madrassa -- told reporters outside the hospital: "Madrassa was the target and at this stage we don`t want to blame anyone."
Yar said it was the responsibility of the government to arrest the culprits.
"Every second day there have been blasts in Shiite and Sunni mosques, Islamic seminaries and other places, so to whom we should blame?" he said.
Karachi has for decades been blighted by bloodletting between rival Sunni and Shiite Islamic sects, ethnic groups and political organisations.
The city, Pakistan`s industrial and commercial center, witnessed two deadly suicide attacks on Shiite mosques in May that killed 48 people and injured about 150.
A bomb explosion killed two people and injured four others in Karachi on Saturday. The bomb went off outside a car showroom in the city`s southern residential district.