25 January 2011 Last updated at 14:46 GMT
Lahore and Karachi blasts: Pakistani Shias targeted
Injured police officer at site of suicide bombing in Lahore on 25 January 2011
TV pictures showed the injured in Lahore crying in pain, or in silent shock as
they were carried away
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At least nine people taking part in a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani
city of Lahore have been killed by a suicide bomb, police say.
Three policemen were said to be among the dead, while 50 other people are
injured, including women and children.
Meanwhile, at least one policeman died in a motorcycle bomb in the southern
city of Karachi near a Shia procession.
The blasts happened despite beefed up security for gatherings by members of the
country's minority Shia community.
The bomber in Lahore struck as Shias marked the end of their holy month,
Muharram, which commemorates the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told the BBC he expected the death toll to
rise, following the explosion near the Bhatti gate in central Lahore.
TV pictures showed the injured crying in pain, or in silent shock as they were
carried away by emergency service workers.
"It definitely appears to be a suicide attack," a senior police official told
reporters at the scene of the Lahore attack.
"A young boy tried to rush in and throw a bag into the crowd. When he was
stopped, he blew himself up."
The bomber was a 13-year-old boy, Lahore police chief Aslam Tarin told Reuters
news agency.
Another senior police official, Rao Sardar, told the AFP news agency that the
bomber was a 16-year-old boy.
Investigators are trying to cordon off the area to collect evidence.
Details are still coming in on the motorcycle bombing near a Shia procession in
Karachi, but at least one police officer has died.
Pakistan has been hit by many bombings in recent years, many of them linked to
al-Qaeda and the Taliban, or the allied Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group.
A number of such attacks in recent years have occurred in Punjab province, and
in particular Lahore.
Sectarian violence has also persisted among hardline elements of Pakistan's
Shia and majority Sunni communities, says the BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan in
Karachi.
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