Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 39 people and wounded nearly 100 in the city of Lahore yesterday, officials said.
“Two suicide bombers attacked within the span of 15 to 20 seconds and they were on foot,” provincial police chief Tariq Saleem Dogar told reporters.
The dead in the attack in a military neighborhood of the city, which is near the border with India, included five soldiers, military officials said.
Militants have renewed pressure on unpopular Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.
There have been five blasts this week alone, including a car bomb suicide attack on a police intelligence building in Lahore on Monday that killed 13 people, and a shooting and bombing at a US-based aid agency that killed six in the northwest.
A photographer said soldiers cordoned off the site of the blasts and were not allowing anyone to approach. Troops were also deployed on rooftops of houses. An army helicopter was flying over the area.
Police official Mohammad Shafiq told reporters the heads of both attackers had been found. Suicide bombers often strap explosives to their bodies and the blasts take off their heads.
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