An explosion killed at least 15 people and injured 20 in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore today, rescue officials say, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blast.
“We have 15 confirmed (fatal) casualties and 20 injured,” Jam Sajjad Hussain, a spokesman for the Rescue 1122 service, tells AFP.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan put the death toll at 14 in a press conference minutes after the attack, adding that it may rise.
Most of the casualties were police officers and some bystanders, he said.
“It is not yet confirmed if it is an incident of terrorism or an accidental explosion,” the interior minister adds.
Lahore has been hit by significant militant attacks in Pakistan’s more than decade-long war on extremism, but they have been less frequent in recent years.
— AFP
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