Islamabad/Lahore, March 12: Twin suicide attacks in Lahore killed at least 45 people — including a dozen Army personnel — and injured more than 100 others on Friday, officials said.
The bombers walked up to Army vehicles in the densely-populated R.A. Bazar garrison area, blowing themselves up as people sat down to eat before the weekly Friday prayers.
The twin blasts earlier in the day were followed by three back-to-back blasts late in the night near a market in the Punjab provincial capital, but there were no immediate reports of any further deaths, though many people were wounded.
The first explosive device went off in an empty plot of land near Moon Market, and soon afterwards a bomb planted in a Suzuki car went off outside the home of an Air Force officer in a nearby residential colony.
It was followed minutes later by another blast in the same area.
Age Correspondent
with agency inputs