At least 26 killed in Lahore Taliban suicide blast that targeted police

Was the suicide bomber a Jew? No. Was he a Methodist? No. Was he a Mormon? No. Was he a Catholic? No. Was he a Presbyterian? No. He was a Muslim! Suicide bombers are Muslims 99.99% of the time. This is their hobby; blowing themselves up and killing innocent bystanders. 

But wait, as liberals would say, he was ‘radicalized’. Now, here’s the next question: do Jews, Methodists, Mormons, Catholics, Presbyterians, etc. get radicalized? No! Muslims get radicalized. 

FACT: All religions are not alike folks! TGO

Refer to story below. Source: The Telegraph

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The Telegraph 

Pakistani rescue workers move the body of a victim at the site of an explosion in Lahore - AFP

A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, an attack which shattered a period of relative calm in Pakistan’s second-largest city.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack which wrought carnage near the Lahore Technology Park in the centre of the city. Police deployed to clear street vendors from the area had been targeted, a police official said.

“We suspect that he (the suicide bomber) came on a motorcycle and he rammed it into a police checkpoint,” Lahore police operations chief Haider Ashraf said.

Rescue workers shifted the wounded to hospital and police officers cordoned off the bomb site as army troops also arrived at the scene.

Pakistani security officials inspect the site of the explosion - Credit:  AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALIARIF ALI

“The death toll we have now is 26 dead and 52 are wounded,” said Jam Sajjad Hussain, spokesman for the Rescue 1122 service.

A wounded man sitting on the roadside was shown crying in pain on television amidst cars and motorcycles mangled by the blast.

The bombing was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, in a message sent to the media by spokesman Muhammad Khurassani. The Pakistani Taliban are loosely allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents but focus their attacks on the Pakistani government.

Bomb blasts by militants are common in Pakistan, especially in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, but attacks in Lahore have become less frequent in recent years.

Haider Ashraf, deputy inspector general of Punjab police, said the blast was a suicide attack and “police were the target”.

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the majority of those killed and wounded were police and warned the death toll could rise.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the blast in a statement and directed medical efforts for those injured.

In early April, a suicide attack on an army census team that killed at least six people and wounded 18 in Lahore was also claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.

After a series of attacks in February, including two in Lahore that killed over 20 people, Pakistan’s powerful military began a nationwide crackdown on militants.

 

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