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Suicide Bombers Kill 39 in Pakistani City of Lahore

   The blasts targeted military vehicles in the city

   VOA News 12 March 2010

   Pakistani  police say 39 people have been killed and nearly 100 others
   wounded in two suicide bomb blasts in the eastern city of Lahore.
   Authorities  say the explosions occurred 15 seconds apart and targeted
   military  vehicles  in the city Friday morning.  Polce say the suicide
   bombers were on foot.
   The  incident is the second attack in Lahore this week.  A suicide car
   bomb killed 13 people and wounded 70 others on Monday.
   In  a  separate  development,  a  Pakistani official Jamil Soomro says
   apparent  sectarian  violence  in  the southern city of Karachi killed
   five people Thursday.
   Gunmen  fired  on a car carrying hardline religious leader Mufti Saeed
   Jalalpuri, killing him and three other people in the vehicle.
   Earlier  Thursday,  gunmen  shot and wounded Mulana Nadim Ghafoor, the
   local  leader of a banned Sunni militant group.  His son was killed in
   the shooting.
   
   Some information for this report was provided by AP, Reuters and AFP

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