"(The explosion) seems like a suicide blast targeting police, but we are still ascertaining the nature of the explosion," the city's commissioner Abdullah Khan Sumbul said. Meanwhile a spokesman for the Lahore police, Syed Hammad Shah, put the toll at 25 dead with 40 injured. In April, seven were killed in an attack in the city targeting a team that was carrying out the country's long overdue census. A blast in Lahore in February was initially thought to be a militant attack, but turned out to be a gas explosion. The city of around six million people is Pakistan's cultural hub and the capital of its most powerful province, Punjab.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 24, 2017 12:56 UTC