Boy, 12, killed in Pakistan bomb blast

A 12-year-old boy was killed today and six members of his family injured in one of two bomb blasts in the Pakistan port city of Karachi, police said.

No one claimed responsibility for the explosions, which police described as aimed at creating terror in the city where the ethnic based Muttahida Qami Movement, or the United National Movement, had called a one-day strike today to protest the killings of its two prominent members last week.