At least 10 people were killed and 60 injured when a powerful explosion occurred in the midst of a crowd of demonstrators in front of the local parliament building in Pakistan's Lahore today, broadcast by local media.
According to the online edition of the English-language Dawn newspaper and television Dubya network, which broadcasts in Urdu language Ten people were killed when an explosion hit a rally in which they were invited unions in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan.
The Dawn reported that the attack committed by a suicide-bomber who rode a motorcycle and that the explosion was outside the local parliament of Punjab state.
"It seems it was a suicide bomber-attack, but the police still investigating to determine" the cause of the explosion, said a spokesman of the police of Punjab, the Nagiamp Haider.
AFP reports that there are at least 60 wounded.
The Dawn reports that security forces have blocked the area and have developed forces of the army. Among the victims is reportedly a former senior officer of the traffic police.
A representative of the organization Tzamaat Achrar urea, an organization belonging to the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack in phone call to the Reuters news agency. The same organization had claimed responsibility for a bombing last Easter, when more than 70 people were killed in a public park.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif said that the ongoing attacks will not dent the resolve of the country's authorities to continue the fight against extremism.
"We will continue the battle until you release our people from this carcinoma and take revenge on those who gave their lives for us," said Sharif in a statement released by his office.
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