Suicide blast in mosque sparks bloody rampage

A MOB angered by an al-Qaida-linked suicide bombing in a Shi’ite mosque set a KFC restaurant on fire in Karachi in overnight rioting, killing six employees and bringing the overall death toll to 11, police said yesterday.

Security in Karachi shifted into “high alert,” said Rauf Siddiqi, home minister of Pakistan’s Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital.

The bomber slipped into the mosque during a shoot-out with police that left another attacker and two officers dead, and blew himself up during evening prayers, killing one worshipper and wounding 20.