Tuesday night was a typical one for the residents of North Nazimabad… till they heard a loud noise! Now in a city like Karachi where we’re used to such sounds, this one seemed to have garnered quite a bit of attention and people started wondering what it could be.
Twitter was abuzz with questions, one even came up with a bizarre theory behind the bang. Here are a few we interesting tweets we have compiled:
The curious case of the North Nazimabad blast:
The curious case of a bang #Karachi #NorthNazimabad #KarachiBlast
— Dabster (@dabbyman) September 1, 2015
The case of mysterious bang, heard across the city…. Heard it while I was at press club, still unclear what it was. #Karachi
— Faizan Lakhani (@faizanlakhani) September 1, 2015
What was that :0 bang :0 #karachi
— OIS (@ozairsoni) September 1, 2015
The bang heard in Karachi is getting mysterious.
— Shaheer Adil Azeem (@ShaheerAzeem) September 1, 2015
Still no news about that Karachi bang ?
— ارتضیٰ (@Itaza) September 1, 2015
The clueless informer:
Huge bang heard in NAzimabad, Civil HOspital, Gulshan and other areas of #Karachi, location not yet ascertained
— Khalid Khan™ (@khalidkhan787) September 1, 2015
The bang was so huge that it was heard as far as Keamari, Lyari, Liaqatabad, Gulshan iqbal, both Nazimabad, and other areas of #Karachi
— Khalid Khan™ (@khalidkhan787) September 1, 2015
The prompt microblogger:
Heard a loud bang #KARACHI
— imran ahmed siddiqui (@dr_imran) September 1, 2015
The do-er:
Reportedly huge bang is heard rangers helpline 1101 is busy #Karachi
— All Falto Tweets (@NavazMalik) September 1, 2015
The weak-hearted:
Plane crash/truck bomb/explosion during a raid. The bang that rocked #Karachi remains a mystery. It should remain like it if necessary.
— Sohail A. (@SohailAnwer) September 1, 2015
The slapstick:
Could it be that the promised alien invasion of Karachi has started with a bang?
— Musharraf A. Farooqi (@microMAF) September 1, 2015
The realist:
In other countries, you seldom hear a loud bang followed by a black out. If it is to be ,it is a rare occasion And in #Karachi its the norm.
— Nida Butt (@Nidabutt9) September 2, 2015
The information transmitter:
#Pakistan Air #Force: #Plane #Crossed #Sound #Barrier, #Loud #Bang #Heard in #Karachi was due to … http://t.co/ww2Q3RlrWR #KarachiPost
— Sylps (@newzlasz) September 1, 2015
@Fairy_zeeco The loud bang heard across the #Karachi was due to a sonic boom caused by an overflying #PAF fighter jet
— Bilal Khan (@Bilalkhan615) September 1, 2015
Pakistan Air Force soon cleared the air and informed worried citizens of Karachi that one of their planes crossed the sound barrier causing the noise:
PAF says their plane crossed sound barrier and loud bang was due to that. #Karachi
— Karachi_Post (@Karachi_Post) September 1, 2015
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