3 killed in Pak mosque blast
AFP, Lahore
At least three people including a suicide bomber were killed when a powerful bomb ripped through a Shia mosque in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, police said. Local police officer Zahir Uddin Babar said a man carrying the explosives tried to enter the Kashmiryan Mosque where worshippers had gathered for evening prayers. "When security guards stopped him he opened fire and blew himself up, killing two security guards," Babar said. The bomber also died in the blast and four people were injured. The mosque is located in the Mochi Gate area of the walled city. The blast was the latest in a series of attacks on Shia or Sunni Muslim targets which have killed more than 70 people in the past 10 days. A suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the eastern city of Sialkot killed 30 people on October 1. A car bomb attack on a Sunni radical party gathering killed 41 people in the central city of Multan in Punjab state on October 7. On Saturday unidentified attackers murdered two Sunni Muslim clerics in the southern port city of Karachi. Most of Pakistan's Sunni majority and Shia minority live peacefully together. But fanatics have been involved in bitter tit-for-tat violence since the 1980s. The conflict has so far cost more than 4,000 lives.
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