Gun, grenades and suicide vests were recovered from the house in a western Karachi neighbourhood, and police said they were working to determine the exact cause of the blast and the circumstances surrounding it.
“There was a blast in a house in Baldia Town in which six people were killed. The house collapsed,” said senior police official Abdul Majeed Dasti.
He said hand grenades, a Kalashnikov rifle and suicide vests were also found at the scene, while city police chief Waseem Ahmad told AFP that the explosives appeared to have been detonated unintentionally.
“It seems that explosives which were stored in the house caused the explosion in which six people were killed,” he said.
“It seems that the house was being used by terrorists. We are taking utmost care in removing the rubble. Bomb disposal officials have arrived at the scene to determine the exact nature of the explosion.” Police could not immediately say whether all six people killed were in the house at the time or were passers-by.
Forty-three people were killed in Karachi -- Pakistan's largest city -- in a bombing blamed on militants during a religions procession last month.
Suicide bombings and attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups have intensified in recent months as the military pursues an aggressive offensive to quash insurgent strongholds along the Afghan border.
Nearly 2,900 people have been killed in attacks in Pakistan since the militant violence intensified in July 2007, with the Taliban increasingly hitting big cities and civilian targets.
Karachi, a cosmopolitan port city far away from the troubled northwest, had largely been spared the bloodshed, but there are fears that militants are using the cover of a city of about 14 million people to regroup and plan attacks.For More Latest News Click here
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