#AceBreakingNews – LAHORE – November 02 – A suicide bombing near the India-Pakistan border has killed at least 55 people, Pakistani police say AFP reported.
Women and children are amongst the dead following the blast, which took place near the Pakistani city of Lahore.
The injury count is currently around 70.
“The death toll increased to 45,” the provincial police chief in Lahore told Reuters.
A senior police official verified the claims that the blast at the Wagah crossing was a suicide attack. “
According to initial information it was a suicide attack,“ Inspector General of Punjab Police, Mushtaq Sukhera, told local television channels. “When … security was a bit relaxed, the suicide attacker blew himself up near a restaurant,” he added.
Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. “We claim the Lahore suicide attack,” senior commander Gilamn Mehsud said.

Pakistani relatives gather beside the covered bodies of victims who were killed in suicide bomb attack in Wagha border near Lahore November 2, 2014 (Reuters / Mohsin Raza)