Pakistani volunteers examine the wreckage of a vehicle after a suicide bomb attack in Peshawar on February 15: ABDUL MAJEED / AFP.
Lahore, Pakistan: At least five people were killed and 15 injured after a bomb ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of Pakistan's Lahore Thursday, officials said, the latest in a surge in Islamist violence.
"It was a bomb attack," Nayab Haider, a spokesman for the provincial Punjab police said. Rescue services spokeswoman Deeba Shehnaz provided the casualty toll.
