The
March 2013 Karachi bombing was a terrorist attack that struck a predominantly
Shia area inside Abbas Town,
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in
Karachi,
Pakistan on 3 March 2013. At least 48 people were killed and more than 180 others injured after a
car bomb was detonated outside a Shia
mosque, just as locals were leaving after the evening's services. As rescuers gathered to the scene of the bombings, a second blast caused even more destruction. Authorities suspected the Sunni militant group
Lashkar-e Jhangvi of being behind the attacks.