Director General Rescue Dr Rizwan 1122 told our sources that 20 people have been killed and forty injured.
Rescue workers and paramedics rushed to the R A Bazaar, a densely populated area of the city. The area was crowded as the blasts occurred shortly before the main Friday prayers were to start.
Rescue teams and ambulances have been sent to the scene.
Security forces have cordoned off the area and traffic was blocked. Media was not allowed to go near the scene.
The blasts came four days after a suicide car bomber destroyed offices used to interrogate suspected militants in an upmarket district of Lahore.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:49 am