PAK PATTAN: Seven people including a woman were killed and 15 injured in a bomb attack after dawn prayers at the eastern gate of Sufi shrine of Baba Farid here on Monday, police said.
The injured and dead bodies have been shifted to hospitals.
Two men riding a motorbike left a milk container near the gate of the shrine in Pakpattan, 190 kilomtres (120 miles) south of the provincial capital Lahore, which then exploded in a huge fireball, a witness said.
According to police 10 kilogramme explosives were used in attack on the shrine.
Sufi shrines which represent a mystical strain of Islam have frequently been the target of bloody attacks by Islamist militants in Pakistan.
In one of the deadliest strikes, a bomb blast in July at Data Darbar in the eastern city of Lahore killed more than 40 people.
Eight people, including two children were killed in an attack at Abdullah Shah Ghazi Sufi shrine in the teeming port city of Karachi on October 8.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani have condemned the attack.
Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has ordered inquiry of the deadly bombing. |
