Chaos, carnage after Pakistan blasts

KARACHI: Bodies, broken glass and burning cars littered the road after bombs ripped through former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's homecoming parade.

Dazed Bhutto supporters stumbled along the road, searching for relatives or helping bloodied survivors into minivans to be ferried to hospital after the twin blasts which killed more than 100 people.

"After the blast there were a lot of people scattering everywhere. I couldn't understand what happened. My brothers and my family were injured," Muhammad Ali Balunch said.

"I took five or six bodies to the ambulances," Balunch said. "But there were still more people lying on the ground and there were bloody pieces of body on the ground."

Minutes earlier, hundreds of people had packed Karsaz Road in a busy neighbourhood in eastern Karachi after waiting for hours to catch a glimpse of Bhutto as her convoy passed.

"I didn't see the first blast but I heard it and it was big," Balunch said.

"But I saw the second and people were scattering everywhere. I was searching for my brothers and I could not find them," he said.

"There was a car on fire," he said, saying he thought that the second bomb was in the car.

Television pictures showed burnt out police cars lining the road close to Bhutto's specially modified lorry, which had been carrying her through the city after she arrived in this teeming city of 12 million on Thursday.