At least 10 dead in suicide bombing in Pakistan

Pakistan (Daily Mail), 8 May 2019 -A Taliban faction have claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb that has killed at least 10 and injured 24 people outside a Muslim shrine in Pakistan. 

 
The blast was at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines in the eastern city of Lahore as the country marks the beginning of Ramadan.   

Officers said they are still investigating the nature of the explosion, which happened near the entrance gate for female visitors to the 11th-century Data Darbar shrine, one of the largest Sufi shrines in South Asia.   

The attack comes as an international NGO and the attorney general’s office in Afghanistan was also targeted by a Taliban bomb.    At least nine people were injured in the blast that saw smoke and flames rising above the Kabul sky.