Security, reax to double bombing that killed at least 25

Описание: (6 Feb 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Various of official inspecting wreckage of ambulances in front of Jinnah Hospital in Karachi
2. Close of damaged ambulance
3. Low angle of officials inspecting damage vehicle
4. Damaged motorcycle
5. Blood stain on the ground
6. Wide pan of blast site
7. Various of broken glass on the ground outside the hospital
8. Wide pan of empty emergency ward
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Faiz Mateen, rescue worker:
"Since last night Jinnah hospital has been closed, people are coming and going back there is no doctor in the emergency (ward). People are asking what happened and we are telling them that the hospital is closed due to the explosion."
10. Wide exterior of emergency ward building
11. Various of military in security patrol vehicle
12. Wide of second blast sight
13. Mid of local residents
14. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mehmood Khan, local resident:
" What happened yesterday it was very bad and we are very sad. The government should take action against those who are responsible and they should be punished. Look at how many precious lives have been lost, how many children have become orphans and how many women have become widows and how much loss the country has suffered. These (bombings) are very bad. Those who are responsible must be punished."
15. Various of people reading newspaper headlines
16. Headline reading in (English) " 25 killed as twin blasts rock Karachi."
STORYLINE
Funerals were expected to held on Saturday for some of the victims of twin bomb attacks in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.
Residents were mourning their dead after suspected Sunni militants bombed a bus and attacked a hospital, killing 25 people and wounding 100 on Friday.
The militants targeted a bus carrying Shiite worshippers and two hours later attacked a hospital treating the victims.
The blasts were the latest sign of the instability tearing at the nuclear-armed nation, which the United States regards as key to its hopes of defeating a related Taliban insurgency across the border in Afghanistan.
The Jinnah hospital, which was targeted in the attacks, was closed as officials assessed the damage following the blast.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani appealed for calm in the city, which is the country''s commercial heart.
Karachi has a history of religious violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and has been tense in recent weeks due to clashes between rival political parties that have left dozens dead.
No group claimed responsibility, but Pakistan is home to many al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist groups with a history of attacking Shiites.
In late December, extremists in the city detonated a bomb that killed 44 Shiites attending a procession to mark Ashura, the anniversary of the death of revered Shiite figure Imam Hussein, sparking the city''s worst riots in recent years.
Friday''s blasts coincided with Arbaeen, the final day of the annual 40-day mourning period for Hussein.
Police officers in Karachi gave conflicting accounts whether one or both of the bombs there were suicide blasts.
Both were apparently attached to motorbikes and were packed with nuts and bolts, an investigator said.
The first bomb targeted a bus carrying worshippers, most of them women and children, killing 12 and wounding 49, officials said.
The bomb was detonated as the bus drove to an Arbaeen procession, witnesses said.
One witness said it may have been a suicide bombing, but that could not be confirmed.
It was either hidden on a motorbike or in or close to an ambulance, a witness and a government official said.
Karachi has been spared those attacks.

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