A terrorist attack in Pakistan: 65 dead, 314 wounded

65 people died and 314 were injured in an explosion in Lachore - the second largest city in Pakistan, located in the Province of Punjab. It is reported by The Nation. As Reuters reports with reference to the police superintendent Mustansar Faroz, most of the dead are women and children.

The explosion occurred in the Park named after the National Pakistan of Pakistan Muhammad Ikbala, located in a densely populated residential area. As noted, the suicide bombing a bomb a few meters from children's swings.

Responsibility for the attack was taken by the Jamaat Ul-Ahrar group, the Taliban Pakistan Taliban Pakistani division, which operates on the territory of the tribes in the northwestern part of the country. This organization and Afghan Taliban are two independent structures; Nevertheless, they work closely, especially in the fight against NATO.

Catholics and Protestants on Sunday celebrate Easter. According to the press secretary of Jamaat Ul-Ahrar, Ehsanullah Ehsan, the goal of the terrorists was a few Christian community of the country. On Christian holidays, as well as in Islamic, in the Ikbala Park is especially crowded.