Two bombs ripped through a crowded market in Lahore on Monday, killing at least 34 people, authorities said. TV footage showed cars and shops on fire in the Moon Market area of the city after the blasts. Earlier in the day a suicide bomber blew himself in Peshawar killing 10.
Lahore police officer Chaudry Shafiq confirmed 34 people were killed. Another officer said around 100 people wounded. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the bombs were apparently remote-controlled devices.
The bombings followed an attack by a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a crowded court complex in Peshawar on Monday, killing 10 people and injuring nearly 50.
The bomber, who came to the court complex on a rickshaw, tried to flee when he was challenged by police, said North West Frontier Province Senior Minister Bashir Bilour. He blew himself up when police fired at him, the minister added. The injured people were taken to nearby hospitals. Doctors said six of them were in a serious condition.
everal policemen, lawyers and passers-by were among the injured. Bilour said there would have been more casualties if the bomber had managed to enter the sessions court complex on Jail Road.
To a question about claims that India and the US were behind such attacks, he said, “no Americans or RAW agents are carrying out these blasts”.
The blast sparked a fire that destroyed the vehicle used by the bomber. An official of the bomb disposal squad said investigators had found body parts of the bomber and parts of the suicide jacket. Militants have carried out scores of bombings in Pakistan as the Army presses an offensive in Waziristan in the northwest close to the Afghan border.
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