Two killed in roadside bomb in Karachi

A roadside bomb in the southern Pakistan port city of Karachi has killed at least two people and wounded five others, police say.

Senior police official Ameer Sheikh says the blast took place in the city's congested Quaidabad area on Friday.

He said some vendors at a makeshift market were selling fruit and other items of daily use when the bomb went off nearby.

Dozens of people were present there at the time.

Sheikh says the dead and wounded have been transported to a hospital and officers are still investigating.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any group.

Karachi is the capital of Pakistan's southern Sindh province where outlawed Islamic militant groups maintain a presence.