A bombing on Easter Sunday killed 65 people in a park in the eastern
city of Lahore that was crowded with Christians, including many
children.
A breakaway Pakistani
faction of the militant Taliban group claimed responsibility.
Ahsanullah Ahsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, told the Associated
Press that a suicide bomber with the faction deliberately targeted the
Christian community.
The explosion took place near the children's
rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park local police chief Haider Ashraf said. He
said the explosion appeared to have been a suicide bombing, but
investigations were ongoing.
The Latest on the bombing of a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore (all times local):
12.00 p.m.
A
spokesman for Lahore rescue administration says that the Easter Sunday
bomb attack on a park in the eastern Pakistani city has killed 65
people.
Deeba Shahnaz said Sunday that over 300 people were
wounded in the bombing at Gulshan-e-Iqbal park, which was claimed by the
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
