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Series of blasts rocks Lahore

Source: PTI
March 12, 2010 22:44 IST
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Three back-to-back blasts went off near a market in Lahore on Friday night, but there was no immediate report of any casualty, hours after 45 people were killed and over 100 others injured when two suicide bombers targeted the army in the cantonment.

The first explosive device went off in an empty plot of land near Moon Market in Lahore, state-run Rescue 1122 service spokesman Fahim Jahanzeb told PTI.

Soon after, 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 yet another blast in the same area.

Initial reports said several persons were injured in the blasts though this could not be independently confirmed.
Footage on television showed that the car involved in the second blast was completely destroyed.

Police officials were quoted by TV news channels as saying that all three blasts were of low intensity.

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