Suicide Bombing Targeting Pakistani Police Kills at Least 26<br />The explosion, which officials said was carried out by a suicide bomber, targeted police officers during a campaign by city government officials against illegal construction<br />and encroachment by vendors and vegetable sellers on Ferozepur Road, in a busy neighborhood of Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province.<br />By SAMEEN KHAN and SALMAN MASOODJULY 24, 2017<br />LAHORE, Pakistan — At least 26 people were killed and 58 others were injured Monday afternoon in a suicide explosion<br />that targeted the police in eastern Pakistan, officials said.<br />Six or seven bodies were strewn on Ferozepur Road, Mr. Saif said, adding, "We thought it was an electrical transformer<br />but later learned it was a blast." The area around the blast site, including an office of Punjab’s chief minister, was immediately cordoned off by the police.<br />An obscure splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, which comprises mainly Pashtuns, released a video earlier in July<br />and warned of attacks in Punjab in retaliation for the Pakistan Army’s operation in the tribal regions.<br />Umar Saif, a provincial cabinet member with an office on the 11th floor, said he heard a "huge<br />blast." "The whole building reverberated, and a few windows were shattered," he said.<br />" Mr. Akram said. that I gave him the water to drink and tried to use the cloth as a bandage and took that man to the hospital,<br />A state of emergency was declared at all government hospitals in Lahore after the<br />bombing, which was condemned by government officials and political leaders.
