According to Express 24/7 correspondent Ahmed Jung, a gambling club Al Fateh Hotel in Chakiwara was the target of the attack. The club is normally filled with at least a hundred people, he added.

The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital, after ambulances managed to reach the site, despite the blockade on Mauripur road due to protest.

The electricity supply in the area was cut after the attack, due to which rescue services also encountered problems in carrying out their work.

This is the second attack on a gambling den in less than a month. At least 19 people had been killed in an explosion at a gambling den in Karachi’s gang-war infested Lyari area on April 21. The remote-controlled blast, in which two kilogrammes of explosive material was used, also left 35 people injured in the locality known as Jinnahabad Lyari Quarters.