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| Huge blast rocks Pakistani city | Huge blast rocks Pakistani city |
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| A powerful car bomb outside the main police station in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed at least 15 people and injured scores, police say. | A powerful car bomb outside the main police station in the Pakistani city of Lahore has killed at least 15 people and injured scores, police say. |
| The blast on the Mall Road destroyed a police emergency response building and TV stations are showing a collapsed building and gutted vehicles. | The blast on the Mall Road destroyed a police emergency response building and TV stations are showing a collapsed building and gutted vehicles. |
| A car driven by a suspected suicide bomber smashed through a barrier and exploded, officials said. | A car driven by a suspected suicide bomber smashed through a barrier and exploded, officials said. |
| An attack on police in Lahore in March was claimed by Taliban militants. | An attack on police in Lahore in March was claimed by Taliban militants. |
| Pakistan's army has been battling the insurgents in their stronghold in the Swat valley, in the north-west, and there have been fears of Taliban retaliation. | Pakistan's army has been battling the insurgents in their stronghold in the Swat valley, in the north-west, and there have been fears of Taliban retaliation. |
| 'Surreal scene' | |
| A regional health official put the death toll at 30 and the number of injured at 116, although these figures are unconfirmed. | |
| Police commandos were seen arresting a man after the explosion. | |
| The blast was powerful enough to shear walls off buildings in the main business district of Lahore. | The blast was powerful enough to shear walls off buildings in the main business district of Lahore. |
| Several high-security buildings, including offices of the local police chief and the Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI) are in the area, and the ISI building was damaged. | Several high-security buildings, including offices of the local police chief and the Inter-Services Intelligence service (ISI) are in the area, and the ISI building was damaged. |
| Zubair, a BBC News website reader in Lahore, described hearing the explosion: | |
| "I was sitting in my office on Lawrence Road [about 500m from the site] when a huge explosion rocked our entire building. | |
| "Glass windows shattered to pieces and the ceiling came down on the floor. I ran outside the building to nearby Jinnah Garden. I could hear gunfire which lasted for about 10 minutes and then I saw ambulance and police rushed to the scene." | |
| Matthias Gattermeier, an Austrian reader also in Lahore, said his office building had been shaken so hard he thought it would collapse. | |
| "We first thought the explosion happened far closer by, but the blast was just so massive," he said. | |
| "I ran out of the building and saw a surreal huge ring of white smoke rise into air. Within minutes police and military blocked the streets. Disaster units and emergency are going in and out in every minute. The streets are full of people." | |
| Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city, has seen bomb attacks with increasing frequency. | |
| Weeks before a police college was attacked in March, with eight people killed, militants attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team in the city, killing six police guards. | |
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