Pakistan mosque bomb blast kills 13 worshippers

A SUSPECTED suicide bomb exploded at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque packed with worshippers yesterday in Pakistan's biggest city. The blast in Karachi killed at least 13 people and wounded scores more.

President Pervez Musharraf condemned the blast as a "heinous act of terrorism" and ordered an immediate investigation.

The attack, inside a government-run religious school, shattered windows and pockmarked the walls with shrapnel and splattered blood. Bits of flesh and pools of blood lay all around as rescue workers tended to the wounded.