Army Commander Escapes Attack, Nine Dead in Karachi (Pakistan)

[Bhaisahab]

The army commander in the Pakistani city of Karachi narrowly escaped assassination on Thursday when gunmen attacked his convoy with gunfire and a bomb, killing at least nine people, officials said.

A military spokesman denied that the city's army corps commander, Lieutenant-General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, had been the target of the attack and said he was safe.

But a security official and a senior military officer, who did not want to be identified, said the attack had been on Hayat's motorcade and his driver had died.

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