EASTER BOMBING: Death Toll Reaches 72
Posted on March 28, 2016
With hundreds more injured. Keep these families in your thoughts and prayers.
At least 72 people were killed and hundreds injured, many of them children, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded park in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday. Explosives packed with ball bearings ripped through crowds near a Gulshan Iqbal Park’s play area, leaving dozens dead or bloodied.
Witnesses described children screaming as people carried the injured in their arms, while frantic relatives searched for loved ones. Javed Ali, a 35-year-old who lives opposite the park near the centre of the city, said the force of the blast shattered the windows of his home.
“After 10 minutes I went outside. There was human flesh on the walls of our house. People were crying, I could hear ambulances,” he said.
“It was overcrowded because of Easter, there were a lot of Christians there. It was so crowded I told my family not to go.”
Doctors described frenzied scenes at hospitals, with staff treating casualties on floors and in corridors, as officials tweeted calls for blood donations. Witnesses said the wounded were first rushed to hospital in rickshaws and other vehicles before dozens of ambulances arrived on the scene.
ARMY CHIEF: Targets Terror Group Responsible for Easter Suicide Bombing, Will ‘Bring to Justice’
Let’s hope he follows through with that statement.
RAWALPINDI (Pakistan): Army Chief General Raheel Sharif has expressed the resolve to bring the perpetrators of suicide attack to justice.
Chairing a high level secuirty meeting in Rawalpindi, he said these savage inhumans will not be allowed to overrun people’s life and liberty.The Army Chief directed concerned commanders and intelligence agencies to launch operations at the earliest to find linkages and perpetrators of the attack.
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