13 people killed and dozens more injured in apparent suicide bomb attack in Pakistan. How do you protect hundreds during a protest without shutting it down – PB/TK
Lahore blast: several killed as ‘suicide bomb’ hits Pakistan rally – Jon Boone in Islamabad
Two senior police officers were among those killed by a suspected suicide bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
The blast on Monday ripped through a crowd of people who had gathered for a protest by chemists and pharmaceutical manufacturers outside the provincial assembly on Mall Road, Lahore’s grand Raj-era thoroughfare.
Mushtaq Sukhera, inspector general of police in Punjab province, said at least 13 people had been killed and 83 wounded. The victims included five police officers, two of them, Zahid Gondal and Ahmad Mobin, senior police figures in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest and most influential province.
Mobin, a deputy inspector general of police, had been on Mall Road to urge the manufacturers to end their protest.
Some eyewitnesses told local media they saw a man on a motorbike cause an explosion in the middle of the crowd. The force was such that a nearby television news van was almost entirely destroyed.
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