Eight people were killed in a blast near Police Lines in Qila Gujar Singh area of Lahore on Tuesday.
The blast hit just metres from an entrance to the Police Lines sending a column of black smoke rising above buildings.
“According to initial reports it was a car bomb but we are still determining the exact nature of the blast,” senior police official Haider Ashraf told AFP.
Several vehicles caught fire after the explosion and streets were littered with glass as the windows of nearby buildings broke.
A breakaway faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jamaatul Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The chief minster’s adviser on health Khawaja Salman Rafique, while speaking to the media in Ganga Ram Hospital, refuted the current death toll of eight.
Rafique said four people were killed and 19 others injured. However, Edhi said eight people were killed, adding that five bodies were found, while the other three have not been located as yet.
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