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Twin suicide bombings kill 48 in Pakistan's Lahore
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 03 - 2010


At least 48 people, including 18 soldiers, were
killed and 95 more injured Friday when two suicide bombings targeted
a military convoy in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, security
officials said, according to dpa.
Chaudhry Shafeeq, a senior police officer, told reporters that
security personnel had found the heads of both bombers who carried
out attacks with a 15-second gap in RA Bazaar, a densely populated
area located near an army base.
"Their target was army vehicles," Shafeeq told reporters.
Television footage showed the wreckage of a destroyed military truck
and the soldiers guarding the site of the blast in RA Bazaar.
The security sources said that a total of 48 people died in what
was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Lahore.
"There are 30 civilians and 18 soldiers who have been confirmed
dead so far," said a senior military official who spoke on condition
of anonymity.
The target of the attack was the garrison security force that was
carrying out a routine patrol in the area, the official added.
Tariq Saleem Dogar, the police chief of Punjab province of which
Lahore is the capital, said that 95 more people were injured. He said
both suicide bombers were on foot. He put the death toll at 39.
It was the second attack this week on security personnel in
Lahore, which is considered the cultural hub of Pakistan. A car
bombing hit a building housing the interrogation centre of a police
intelligence agency on Monday, killing 15 people and injuring around
70.
The bombings come after a brief lull in the campaign of deadly
attacks by Taliban and al-Qaeda militants, who have been hit hard by
recent offensives by government forces in their heartland in the
restive tribal region.
Thousands of people have died in dozens of suicide attacks on
military and civilian targets since 2007, when the Islamist
insurgents started to openly challenge the government and tried to
impose Taliban-styled Islamic rule in certain areas of the
north-western region.


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