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| Pakistan blast 'kills 45' at Wagah border with India | Pakistan blast 'kills 45' at Wagah border with India |
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| At least 45 people have been killed and more than 70 injured in a suspected suicide bombing at a Pakistan-India border town near the city of Lahore. | |
| A senior security official in Punjab province said that the dead included three members of the border force. | A senior security official in Punjab province said that the dead included three members of the border force. |
| The explosion happened on the Pakistan side near the famous Wagah crossing between the two countries. | The explosion happened on the Pakistan side near the famous Wagah crossing between the two countries. |
| Crowds gather every day at the crossing to watch soldiers conduct a "lowering of the flags" ceremony. | Crowds gather every day at the crossing to watch soldiers conduct a "lowering of the flags" ceremony. |
| Police told the BBC at least 15 of those injured were seriously wounded. | |
| Mushtaq Sukhera, the Punjab police chief, said the blast happened when a suicide attacker approached a restaurant after the Wagah ceremony and detonated his explosives. | |
| He told Reuters news agency the attacker had struck when security had been "a bit relaxed". | |
| Another witness described how he was sitting in his office when he heard the blast. | |
| "I rushed to the scene and saw scattered bodies, injured men, women and children and smashed cars," one intelligence official told Reuters. | |
| Dozens of people use the Wagah crossing to enter India and Pakistan everyday, says the BBC's Shumaila Jaffrey in Lahore. | |
| It is also a crucial trade facility, where truck-loads of goods coming from and going to India are loaded and unloaded. | |
| A large number of people attend the border parade on Sundays, our reporter adds. |