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At least 10 killed, 60 injured in Pakistan's Lahore blast

Published: 13 Feb 2017 - 05:31 pm | Last Updated: 08 Nov 2021 - 01:06 pm
Pakistani police and rescue officials gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Lahore on February 13, 2017. AFP / ARIF ALI

Pakistani police and rescue officials gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Lahore on February 13, 2017. AFP / ARIF ALI

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Lahore, Pakistan: At least 10 people have been killed in a powerful blast which ripped through a protest in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, hospital and rescue officials confirmed Monday.

"At least 60 others are injured," a hospital source in Lahore told AFP, after the explosion which detonated as hundreds demonstrated outside the Punjab provincial assembly.