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Blast at Karachi Shia mosque, kills at least 13

AGENCIES, Karachi
N bomb blast inside a Shia mosque during evening prayers has killed at least 13,people in the southern city of Karachi, where a senior cleric from Pakistan's majority Sunni sect was gunned down a day earlier.
Doctors at three city hospitals • told Reuters reporters they had counted 13 dead so far, while an angry crowd milling around in the darkness outside the cordoned-off mosque talked of more bodies inside the shattered building. Doctors said about 30 had been wounded Fears of a fresh round of interMuslim sectarian violence ran high in Karachi after the killing on Sunday of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a radical Sunni preacher, and thousands of police were deployed at mosques in anticipation of a backlash.
The blast at the Ali Raza Imam Bargah mosque was less than a mile away from where Shamzai, a pro-Taliban cleric who called for "jihad", or holy war, against the United States, was killed.
Sunni-Shia sectarian violence has killed thousands in the past 15 years.
"We heard that there was an explosion near the Ali Raza Imam Bargah," Karachi police chief Tariq Jamil told the Reuters news agency, referring to a Shia mosque.
Pakistan's information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said the blast, during evening prayers, was caused by a bomb.
Initial reports said the explosion was so powerful it cracked the mosque's concrete dome.
An office building belonging to the trust that manages the mosque collapsed.
Angry crowds quickly gathered at the mosque and our correspondent says a police vehicle was set on fire.
The blast took place only a kilometre from the site of Mufti Shamzai's killing.
Police had been trying specifically to protect Shia mosques following Mufti Shamzai's death.
Interior ministry spokesman Abdur Rauf Chaudhry said it was too early to say who carried out the attack but said it appeared to be
sectarian violence.
A coalition of six fundamentalist parties, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), had called for a nationwide strike on Friday in protest at Mufti Shamzai's killing.
A senior MMA leader, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, said: "We will not sit silent. We will protest against the brutal murder of a great religious personality.
The car of Mufti Shamzai was ambushed by up to six gunmen
"We will be forced to take other steps if the killers of Nizamuddin Shamzai are not arrested," he said.
A police taskforce has been formed to investigate the killing.
No one has yet said they carried out the attack.
Up to six gunmen ambushed the car of Mufti Shamzai, witnesses said.
One of the 75-year-old cleric's sons, a nephew, a driver and a police bodyguard were wounded.
Mufti Shamzai was a strong critic of the US, urging a holy war after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Sunni Muslims, including his students, rioted at news of his death, attacking a police station and burning cars.
Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali called the killing a "dastardly act of terrorism".
The cleric's death came three weeks after at least 14 people were killed in Karachi when a man, apparently dressed as a Shia cleric, blew himself up in a Shia mosque.
As many as 4,000 people have been killed in Pakistan since the late 1980s in Shia-Sunni sectarian violence.