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Lahore: A powerful bomb blast rocked Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Sunday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring over a 200, ANI quoted Pakistani media as saying.
Shortly after the untoward incident, a heavy contingent of police cordoned off the eitire area and Pakistani Army have been deployed.
The explosion took place inside a children's Park known as Gulshan-i-Iqbal at Iqbal Town here. A large number of families, especially women and children, were present when the blast took place.
Pakistani newspaper Dawn quoted Iqbal Town Superintendent of Police Dr Muhammad Iqbal as saying that the explosion was a suicide attack.
Punjab province minister Bilal Yasin had earlier confirmed that at least 51 people died in the blast while nearly 200 were injured.
As per initial reports, no group has yet claimed the attack.
The park is located in a posh-locality in Lahore, the hometown of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The city is comparatively peaceful in an otherwise violence-wracked Pakistan.
Eyewitnesses said there were scattered body parts in the park, where a large number of families, especially women and children, were present on a Sunday evening. The crowd was "unusually large" because of Easter.
"Still a good number of people are in critical condition," Punjab Emergency Services Rescue 1122 spokesperson Deeba Shahnaz said.
Over 100 injured have been shifted to different hospitals of Lahore, she said. Doctors said the death toll may rise.Most of the injured are women and children, Hussain added.
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation of 190 million people, is plagued by a Taliban insurgency, criminal gangs and sectarian violence. Punjab is its biggest and wealthiest province.
Today's incident reminds of December 16, 2014, Peshawar school massacre. Seven gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) had conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar and killed 141 people, including 132 schoolchildren, ranging between eight and eighteen years of age.