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Seven blasts follow after Lahore twin suicide attacks

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Pakistani investigators inspect a car damaged by an explosion in the residential area of Lahore. – AP Photo
LAHORE: After the deadly twin suicide attacks in Lahore Cantonment, that killed 39 and left 100 injured. Lahore’s Moon Market has witnessed six low intensity blasts within an hour of each other, and one blast that occurred in Samanabad.

 

Police have taken an unidentified male into custody from the area.

 

The sound of the explosions were heard in a two kilometer radius, the low intensity blasts created panic but not much harm.

 

The first blast occurred in Kashmir Block near Moon Market, which had only three months earlier been reduced to ashes, and the second explosion was in Iqbal Town’s Kashmir block in front of Group Captain Pakistan Airforce, Inam-ul-Haq’s home.

 

The third blast took place in Iqbal Town’s Muslim Block in front of Edhi Welfare and Ambulance and Rescue 1122 offices, moments later a fourth blast happened outside the home of DSP Punjab Police, Khalid Javed Chaudhry in Iqbal Town’s Karim Block.

 

The fifth blast in Iqbal Town area was of a transformer, and the sixth explosion occurred at the green belt of Kashmir block.

 

A seventh low intensity explosion was heard in Samanabad area of Lahore, Samanabad and Allama Iqbal town are adjoining towns.

 

No casulaties have been reported in the smaller explosions, only minor injuries that needed first aid treatment. – DawnNews


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