A powerful bomb hidden underneath a fruit cart detonated among shoppers at a market in the southern port city of Karachi on Monday evening at rush hour, and officials and local news reports said it killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 45, four of them critically. The blast coincided with a visit to Karachi by President Perez Musharraf. A spokesman for Mr. Musharraf ruled out a connection. The bombing was in a crowded industrial neighborhood in northern Karachi. It ripped through a throng of people gathered around fruit stalls during the evening rush hour. Local television news channels showed the wreckage of a motorbike, its mangled parts scattered on the asphalt. Fruit and vegetables splattered with blood were spread about the area.
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