On Sunday evening’s suicide attack some 70 people were killed in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park of Allama Iqbal Town, rescue sources said. Hospital sources informed that over 250 people were injured. The attack was claimed by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar.Iqbal Town Superintendent Police Dr Muhammad Iqbal confirmed this was a suicide attack that happend at a children’s park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present.The area is a renowned residential area of Lahore. The blasttook place outside the exit gate and a few feet (metres) far from the children’s swings. DCO Captain (Retd) Muhammad Usman said the head of the suicide bomber was recovered. Ball bearings were recovered at the site.Eye witnesses said there were pools of blood and scattered body parts spread across the site of the attack.Witnesses said they could hear children screaming as people carried the injured in their arms, while frantic relatives searched for loved ones in nightmarish scenes at the park near the centre of the city. “We took the injured to hospitals on autos and taxis,” one eye witness said.He added that the crowd was “unusually large” because of Easter.”The roads were also jammed and queues of vehicles could be seen till Moon Market.”
