LAHORE, Pakistan — An apparent suicide bombing killed at least four people outside a police complex in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday, officials said, in a rare attack on the relatively peaceful city of Lahore.
Initial reports suggest a man on foot ran toward the gate of one of the main police buildings in Lahore and blew himself up, said Lahore Police Chief Amin Wains, who set the death toll.
Several people were also wounded in the blast and some nearby buildings caught on fire, said police spokesman Haidar Ashraf. Live television footage from the scene showed smoke billowing from the building and people fleeing. Pakistani rescue authorities could be seen hosing down a smoking building as other officials set up screens to keep media and onlookers away. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, through the country faces a Taliban insurgency and other threats from Islamic extremist groups.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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