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NZ cancel Test tour after blast

REUTERS, Karachi
New Zealand have cancelled the remainder of their tour of Pakistan after a bomb blast killed 14 people outside their Karachi hotel.
The bomb exploded shortly before the start of the second cricket test, alongside a navy bus parked near two major city hotels. Eleven of the dead were French defence technicians helping build two submarines at a dockyard.
"I have made a decision to immediately cancel the remainder of New Zealand's cricket test tour of Pakistan," New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden told a news conference.
"The explosion occurred close to the time the team were due to depart for the National Stadium but, in line with the security plan, the team bus was situated in a secure car park.
"I will now make an arrangement for the team to immediately fly out of Pakistan and return home to New Zealand."
Police in Karachi said a suspected suicide bomber was responsible for the blast, which also wounded at least 17 people.
Team liaison officer Fahimuddin Alvi was taken to hospital after sustaining a heart attack as result of the explosion.
"He was moving around making arrangements for the team's coach to go to the stadium," said Pakistan assistant coach Sikander Bakht. "He was terrified by something like this happening so close."
New Zealand physiotherapist Dayle Shackel, who had been sitting in the team bus, received a minor injury to his left elbow from broken glass.
"I was sitting down, opened the curtains and a massive bang blew me to the ground," Shackel told the New Zealand Press Association. "Glass exploded all around me."
Wicketkeeper Robbie Hart had been in his room at the time of the blast.
"The whole room caved in, glass was flying everywhere," Hart said. "I hit the floor and most of it went over the top of me. It was just crazy."
Former New Zealand fast bowler Danny Morrison, now a television commentator, said scenes outside the hotel had been horrific.
"You could see body parts all over the road. You could see torsos, arms and legs everywhere," he said.
New Zealand radio commentator Bryan Waddle told Radio Sport he could see the mangled frame of the bus.
"Basically that's all you can see, the mangled wreckage of the bus. I had a quick look into the street -- it wasn't very appetising so I decided to walk away from that area," he said.
Waddle said metal fragments and broken glass had littered the heavily damaged hotel front, and security checks were being made to ensure there were no other devices.
The tour had been scheduled originally for September and October last year but was postponed after the September 11 attacks on the United States and the subsequent war in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Security concerns also led to West Indies cancelling a test series, which was later staged on neutral territory in Sharjah. The Pakistan board has already lost more than $10 million in revenue since September 11.
Pakistan Cricket Board head Munawwar Rana said the cancellation could have repercussions on the country's future programmes.
"It will now take a lot of effort to convince the International Cricket Council or other cricket boards to play in Pakistan after this incident," he told Reuters.
New Zealand cricket teams have had three tours to Sri Lanka interrupted by bombings in the past 15 years.
A New Zealand team was in Colombo in 1987 when a car bomb killed more than 100 people and in 1992 a bomb exploded outside the team hotel.
Last year, the team was in Sri Lanka when a suicide attack by Tamil Tigers closed Colombo's international airport.