Four hurt in Pakistan Mosque bombing
A bomb at a Shiite mosque in the eastern city of Lahore today injured at least four people, officials said.
Mohammed Abid, an official at the Lahore police control room, said the blast happened at the Husainia Hall mosque in the ancient walled part of the city.
“So far we only know it was a bomb blast and injured are being taken to hospital,” he told The Associated Press by telephone.
The bomb went off at the mosque at 5.40pm after prayers, said Raja Basharat Illahi, law minister for Punjab province of which Lahore is the capital.
He said four people were injured, none seriously.
“It seems to be a small bomb blast and there appear to be not many casualties,” he said.
The attack is the third this month against a religious target in Punjab, stoking fears of spiralling sectarian violence.
On October 1, a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque killed 31 people in Sialkot city, then six days later, a car bombing at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in Multan city killed 40 people.
No group claimed responsibility for those attacks, which prompted authorities to ban religious gatherings across the country – except for Friday prayers at mosques.
