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26 killed in twin suicide bombings
Bureau Report

Lahore—At least 26 people were killed Tuesday morning and 140 wounded when two blasts ripped through the provincial capital.
An explosion occurred at the entrance of the 8 floor Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Office on Temple Road at 9:27 am killing 23 people and wounding 138. Due to the explosion the entrance of the building was completely damaged and the cars parked in the parking lot completely destroyed. The explosion also damaged the structure of the 8 floor building and it is feared that it could collapse at any time.
According to DG FIA Tariq Pervez and one of the receptionists around 200 people were present inside the building at the time of the explosion including 14 criminals brought for investigation
According to eyewitness said that the bomb was planted inside the building due to which the building suffered much damaged. However DIG Investigation Ch Tassaduq Hussain talking to media told that FIA building blast was a suicide attack and body parts of the bombers have been located.
He told that suicide bomber driving an explosion laden Toyota Hiace parked the vehicle at the entrance of the building and than blew himself up. He told that at least 35 to 40 kilogram explosive material was used in the blast.
96 of the wounded in the FIA building have been admitted to Ganga Ram hospital and 42 at Mayo Hospital. Some of the wounded are said to be in critical condition.
The injured taken to Ganga Ram have been identified as Mushtaq, Kala Khan, Ayesha, Muhammad Hayat, Shahid, Saifullah, Muhammad Zubair, Shaukat, Husnain, Jamil, Arshad, Jaffar, Zahid Farooq, Tanveer, Shafique, Muzaffar Arbab, Pervaiz, Dost Muhammad, Qasim Ali Khan, Sadiq Ahmed, Zahid Farooq, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abdul Ghaffar, Sajjad, Aamar, Ayyaz Mir, Ali Ahmed, Ghulam Hussain, Adnan, Shahzad, Ms Anwar, Gulshan, Aneeta, Osama, Asim Malik, Sadiq Ahmed, Riaz, Imran, Mujeed, Muhammad Rafiq, Ali Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Amin, Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Riaz Khan, Muhammad Danyal, Aaqib Tahir, Hassan-ul-Zafar, Raza, Haleem Dar, Kulsoom Gurya, Amjad, Adnan, Muhammad Iftikhar, Waqar, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Nadeem, Ishaq, Nouman, Asad, Jamil Tanveer, Ijaz, Kamal, Javed, Muhammad Aslam, Kunwar, Sarwar, Shaukat Ali, Shakoor, Muhammad Iqbal, Rafiq, Mateen, Muhammad Ahmed, Hakim, Saeed Ahmed, Mehar Hayat, Shahid Manzoor, Muhammad Aun, Muhammad Rizvi, Javed Khalid, Javed, Raza Mateen, Zahoor, Muhammad Aslam, Rafiq, Aashiq and Javed.
The other blast took place at Lahore’s Model Town of Block F near Bilawal House in Lahore in which two children were killed.
A suicide bomber in a car laden with explosives rammed into a building of an advertising agency killing two children 6 year old Sami, 8 year old Hussain, an unidentified female and the bomber.

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