LAHORE, Pakistan: Dozens of people, including Pakistani soldiers, died on Friday and many were seriously injured in two suicide bomb attacks directed at army personnel patrolling a busy market place, police officials said.
Police Inspector General Tariq Saleem Dogar said at least 39 people were killed and 100 injured in the two blasts.
A Lahore police officer, Sohail Sukhera, said the city in the Pakistani heartland was "in a state of war" after the explosions — the second assault in Lahore in less than a week — which came despite what he termed tight security in the army-controlled cantonment area of the city.
The attacks came only days after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into the main gate of a safe house in Lahore used for interrogation by the Pakistani military. The explosion killed at least 15 people, including guards, and flattened the building.
In addition, militants have struck several times in other parts of Pakistan this week, including an attack on Wednesday on the offices of World Vision, an American-based Christian aid group, in the northwest district of Mansehra, which killed six Pakistani employees. A bombing at a small, makeshift movie theater in the main northwest city of Peshawar killed four people.
The upsurge in violence follows a Pakistani crackdown on Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, including the arrest of the Taliban's No. 2 commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. But no group immediately took responsibility for the latest attack on Friday.
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Friday, March 12, 2010
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