Pakistani rescue workers and media personnel gather in the damaged train waiting lounge after a bomb blast in Lahore yesterday
A bomb exploded near a luxury train waiting lounge at the main railway station in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore yesterday, killing at least two people, police said. “It was a bomb blast, two people have been killed and 10 injured,” senior police officer Abdul Razzaque Cheema said.
Rescue official Kiramat Ali described it as a “huge blast” and said 35 wounded had been taken to hospital. Pakistan suffers frequent attacks blamed on Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked militants, who are most active in the lawless tribal belt in the northwest of the country. The explosion was the first attack in Lahore, since a bomb at a Sunni shrine in February 2011 which killed two people.