A suicide bomber attacked security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 23 others, police said. Hundreds of pilgrims were inside and outside the shrine, where a local Sufi saint is buried, when the blast took place. Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar, the governor of Punjab province, told reporters that those who carried out Wednesday's attack were the "enemy of Islam and humanity." Pakistanis in large numbers visit the shrine, where a pair of suicide attacks in 2010 killed and wounded dozens of people. Lahore is the capital of eastern Punjab province, which has seen similar attacks in recent years.

Source: The Telegraph May 08, 2019 08:15 UTC