Van bombing kills 30 in Pakistan: 250 wounded
Lahore, Pakistan: Suspected suicide attackers detonated an explosives-filled van Wednesday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby office of Pakistan's top intelligence service in the eastern city Lahore. About 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the attack - one of the deadliest in Pakistan this year - could be retaliation for the government's military offensive to rout Taliban militants from the northwestern Swat Valley.
Suicide attack hits Pakistan's Lahore, 24 dead
Recent assaults in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city situated near the Indian border, have heightened fears that militancy in nuclear-armed Pakistan is spreading well beyond the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. Police said two suspects were detained.
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Image: Map locates Lahore, Pakistan, where Gunmen detonated a car bomb near police and intelligence agency offices in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing about 30 people and wounding at least 250 in one of the country's deadliest attacks this year. At least four men with rifles stepped from the car and opened fire on the intelligence agency building, then set off a massive blast when security guards returned fire, officials said.
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