لاہور: خود کش دھماکوں میں 40 افراد ہلاک

لاہور میں مصروف داتا دربار کے قریب ہونے والے دو خود کش بم دھماکوں میں 40 سے زائد افراد ہلاک اور 170 سے زائد زخمی ہوئے ہیں۔

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Suicide bombers have launched a deadly attack on a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

At least 37 people died in the blasts at the popular Data Darbar shrine late on Thursday evening, officials say.

At least 175 other people were hurt in the blasts, believed to be the first targeting a shrine in Lahore.

Thousands of people were visiting the shrine at the time, officials say. It holds the remains of a Persian Sufi saint, Abul Hassan Ali Hajvery.

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Pakistan Death Toll in Lahore Sufi Shrine Bombing Rises to 41

July 2 (KN NEWS) -- Pakistan’s death toll in yesterday’s twin suicide attacks on the shrine of a Sufi saint in the eastern city of Lahore rose to 41. At least 175 people were injured.
The first bombing took place at 11:20 p.m. in the basement of the tomb, an area reserved for ablutions, and the second bomb exploded minutes later in the main prayer area which was crowded with worshippers who gather every Thursday for special rituals, Khusro Pervez, Lahore’s commissioner, told reporters. The shrine of Persian Sufi saint Syed Abul Hassan Bin Usman Bin Ali Al- Hajweri is also known as Data Gunj Baksh.
The bombings in Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital, come a month after over 100 people were killed in twin attacks on mosques of the minority Ahmadi community in the city on May 28. At least 550 people have been killed in retaliatory attacks by militants in cities nationwide after Pakistan’s military started operations in the northwest last year.
This was the second assault on the tomb of a Sufi saint, after militants blew up the Rehman Baba shrine in Peshawar in March 2009. Hard-line religious militants oppose followers of the Sufi interpretation of Islam, a moderate belief system based on mysticism.