By KUNA
Islamabad : More than 20 people were killed and scores wounded in three explosions that rocked an east Pakistani city Tuesday morning, a week after two suicide blasts in the city killed over 11 and wounded dozens others, said police and eyewitnesses.
The first explosion took place inside the six-storey Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building on the busiest Temple Road in Lahore, and the second occurred near a school and Bilawal House of slain Benazir Bhutto in Model Town area, police sources told KUNA.
Another explosion was also heard in the posh Defence area but police was still looking into cause.
Police termed the blast inside the FIA building a suicide explosion, which killed over 20 people and wounded dozens others.
They said a huge time-bomb exploded inside an advertising agency office in a building only few yards from Bilawal house. They suspected the real target was Bilawal house. Sources said the explosion killed a lawyer’s family as he was going to drop his two children to school.
At least five people including two children and women were killed and over 10 were wounded in the second explosion.
Sources said that this was the deadliest explosion ever reported in Lahore. They said the explosion totally changed the map of Temple road.
“There was fire and black smoke everywhere,” said an eyewitness.
It was a severe blast that shattered all glass panes at my house, said another eyewitness, Umar Shah, whose house is located only a few yards from the FIA building.
Over a dozen cars went into flames and the FIA building has been badly damaged, he added.
The explosion cracked the FIA building and poked down several of its parts, burying several people under debris. Police sources said that glass panes of 50 nearby houses were smashed.