Karachi, Sept 20: A bomb tore through the 10th floor of a building housing foreign companies in Pakistan's violent southern port city Karachi tonight but there were no casualties, police and witnesses said. The explosion shattered the glass facade of the 12-storey Kawish crown plaza building, near the Karachi's Quaid-e-Azam international airport, at about 8:30 pm (2100 IST), when most of the offices were vacant. "There are no casualties or injuries as offices were closed," a Karachi police official Muhammad Saleem told a news agency. "The fire that erupted after the explosion is also not that big and fire engines are extinguishing it."
The police chief of Sindh province Kamal Shah said a low-intensity bomb caused the blast.

"Experts are assessing the intensity of the bomb. Had it been a high-intensity bomb it would have ripped off the roof," Shah told reporters.
"It does not look like an act of terrorism because terrorists normally try to kill a number of people."
About a dozen cars parked around the building were damaged by falling glass debris.

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Two people were killed in a bomb blast in the same building on July 11.

Witnesses described today's blast as powerful.
"There was a loud, deafening noise and then i fell unconscious," a security guard on the ground floor told reporters.
Bureau Report