The death toll from an overnight suicide bombing on the Pakistani side of the border with India climbed to 60 on Monday as authorities from both sides temporarily closed the frontier to travellers and trade, officials said, according to dpa. Twelve more people died of their injuries, raising the toll from 48 overnight after the Taliban bomber hit a crowd gathered to watch a flag-lowering ceremony at the Wagah border crossing near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, said Doctor Kurram Shahzad at Khurki Hospital. More than 130 people were injured in the worst attack to hit the country in several months, said Tahir Javed Khan, head of the paramilitary Rangers force that mans the border. Khan said the crossing had been sealed temporarily after police found another bomb in the parking area Monday.
