At least two dead, 22 injured by bomb in Pakistan’s Lahore

NM Desk: Dhaka, Jan-20,
At least two people were killed and 22 wounded on Thursday by a bomb blast in a busy shopping district of the
Pakistani megacity of Lahore, police, and officials said.
“Initial investigations show that it was a time-controlled device on a motorbike which was the cause of the blast,” Rana Arif, spokesman for Lahore police, told AFP. Hospital sources and police said two people were killed — including a child — and 22 injured in the blast, which happened in old Lahore’s busy Anarkali shopping district. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but there have been a series of blasts and attacks against police since December when a truce between the government and Pakistan’s Taliban lapsed.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — a home-grown movement that shares common roots with the Afghan Taliban — has claimed responsibility for most of those incidents.

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