Massive suicide bombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters and a business in Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200, according to AP. The two blasts happened about 15 minutes apart in different districts of this eastern city. The first tore the facade from the Federal Investigation Agency building as staff were beginning their working day. It also damaged scores of homes in the neighborhood. City police chief Malik Mohammed Iqbal said an explosives-packed car was driven into a parking lot and detonated next to the building _ which houses a department of the federal police's anti-terrorism unit _ knocking out the walls of several offices and part of a stairwell. Rarely has a suicide blast in Pakistan caused such serious structural damage to a major government facility. Twenty-one people were killed, including 16 police, officials said. Mian Muhammad Ejaz, a top city administrator, said over 200 people were wounded. Doctors at Lahore hospitals said the dead included a 3-year-old girl, and 32 girls were injured by flying debris at an elementary school near the police building.
