March 28, 2016
Today Pakistan woke up shocked by a suicide attack in a public park last night. The attack which took place in the city of Lahore, killed at least 72 people and left around 330 wounded, most of them women and children. Zaeem Qadri, spokesman for the government of the Punjab province, told the press that 29 of the 72 dead were children. Families today were facing the horrible task of trying to identify the victims.
Haider Ashraf, deputy general inspector of police, said that a man detonated the bombs attached to his body in the parking lot of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, a few meters away from several children’s swings that were filled with families celebrating the Easter Holiday. The injured were taken to hospitals in the city in taxis and cars because there were not enough ambulances due to the high number of people injured.The media reported that hundreds of people began donating blood in the medical centers of the city.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, an armed group that has been behind many of the deadliest attacks in the recent history of this Asian nation.
Security forces identified the terrorist as Muhammad Yousaf Farid, 28, a resident in the district of Muzaffargarh, in Punjab. Fifteen people, three of them brothers, have been arrested as part of the investigations.
President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and several members of his cabinet, provincial governments and opposition leaders have condemned this attack.
The head of the Pakistani government received a phone call from his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, condemning the killings.
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Source: Prensa Latina