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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
PAKISTAN: Suicide/Homicide Attacks Kill Dozens
Published: March 11, 2008
2 suicide attacks kill dozens in Pakistan
IHT/The Associated Press
LAHORE, Pakistan: Blasts set off by suicide bombers ripped through a
seven-story police headquarters in Lahore and a nearby advertising
agency Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200.
The two blasts happened about 15 minutes apart in different districts of this eastern city. The first tore the facade of the Federal Investigation Agency building as staff were beginning their workday. It also damaged scores of homes in the neighborhood.
The Lahore police chief, Malik Muhammad 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.
Pervez Malik, another city police official, said 17 people were killed and 165 were wounded. Dr. Fayaz Ranjha, a top official at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore, said a 3-year-old girl was among the dead.
The second explosion shattered the office of an advertising agency in a residential neighborhood, about 25 kilometers, or 15 miles, from Lahore. Muhammad Afzal, another city police official, said three people were killed there, including two children...
-- Source/continues at the International Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/11/asia/pakistan.php