PTI
Lahore: At least 67 people, including children, were killed Sunday as a powerful blast triggered by a suicide bomber ripped through a crowded public park in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, capital of Punjab province.
The explosion occurred at the Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in a posh locality near the city’s centre.
Eyewitnesses said there were pools of blood and scattered body parts in the park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present Sunday evening.
The crowd was ‘‘unusually large’’ because of Easter, an eyewitness was quoted as saying by the Dawn.
Iqbal Town superintendent of police Muhammad Iqbal said that the explosion was a suicide attack. There was no security present in and around the park, the report said.
An emergency has been declared at all government hospitals in the city, and a heavy contingent of police has cordoned off the area.
Rescuers, including police, and more than 20 ambulances rushed to the park and began ferrying the wounded.
ARY News said 5-6 kg of explosives may have been used in the explosion, which was heard in a large part of Lahore, capital of Punjab province.
