Four people were killed and 24 injured in an explosion in one of Pakistan's oldest and most popular Sufi shrines in Lahore on Wednesday, police said. The blast occurred near the entrance gate for female visitors to the 11th century Data Darbar shrine, one of the largest Sufi shrines in South Asia,police said. The shrine has been targeted previously, in a 2010 suicide attack that killed more than 40 people, and is guarded by heavy security. Militant Islamists see visits to Sufi shrines and some rituals at the graves of Muslim saints as unIslamic. Local police official Muhammad Kashif said the blast may have been “a suicide attack targeting security officials' vehicle”.

Source: The Hindu May 08, 2019 05:16 UTC