Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and over 200 injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in a mosque packed with Shia worshippers in Pakistan's port city of Karachi this afternoon (May 7, 2004).

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The blast occurred in the mosque inside a Government-run religious school in the city at around 13.50 hrs (IST) during the Friday prayers, reports reaching Islamabad said.

President Pervez Musharraf condemned the blast as a "heinous act of terrorism" and ordered an immediate probe into the attack.

While 12 dead were brought to Karachi Civil Hospital, another body was taken to the Jinnah Hospital. About 50 injured people remain in hospital while others were discharged after treatment of minor injuries.

The blast created mayhem in the mosque and virtually ripped open its high ceiling. Television channels showed bits of flesh and pools of blood all around as rescuers shifted the wounded in ambulances to hospital.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Soon after the blast, Shia mourners attacked the police vehicles with stones and attempted to set them on fire.

Another bomb exploded in the premises of high court building in Quetta, the provincial headquarters of Pakistan's Southwestern Baluchistan, injuring a policeman and a bystander.

The bomb, believed to have been placed at a cycle-stand, went off at around 11.00 hrs (IST) in the building of Baluchistan High Court, witnesses said. The blast has damaged three vehicles.

Eyewitnesses said that the blast took place after an unidentified man parked the cycle in the stand and disappeared.