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Two blasts rock Karachi
Karachi, May 2
Two bombs exploded on Thursday rocking the restive port city of Karachi for a second day. The latest blasts killed a 12-year-old boy and wounded six other members of his family as a strike shut most markets and businesses here, the police said. No one claimed responsibility for the explosions. AP
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A man sifts through the debris of his collapsed house after a bomb blast in Karachi on Thursday. 
— Reuters photo

Kidnappers kill 4
Chapra (Bihar), May 2
Armed criminals killed four persons at Chapgao village in Gopalganj district last night. UNI

Food poisoning
Patna, May 2
Four members of a family have died of food poisoning while three taken ill in Bihar’s Vaishali district, a top police official said today. SP Sobha Ahotkar, quoting a delayed report, said on Tuesday evening that Usha Devi, her father-in-law, Rambriksha Rai, and two daughters complained of nausea and vomiting after having a meal at Dhabauli village in Vaishali and died shortly afterwards. PTI