Senior police officer Haider Ashraf said a suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck near police guarding a demolition site at Kot Lakhpat’s vegetable market on the outskirts of Lahore. Ashraf said it was believed earlier that the bomb was in a car, but it was later discovered that the vehicle belonged to a police officer, among the eight officers killed. Bomb blasts by militants are common in Pakistan, especially in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, but attacks in Lahore have become less frequent in recent years. Lahore attack: Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 25 people in Pakistan, many of them police

A suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say — in an attack which shattered a period of relative calm in Pakistan's second-largest city. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif condemned the blast in a statement and directed medical efforts for those injured.
At least 26 people are killed and over 50 others are injured in a suicide car bombing in southern Lahore.