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ISLAMABAD: In the latest wave of terrorist attacks, at least 30 people were killed and 250 injured when three suicide bombs ripped through a Shia procession in Pakistan’s cultural city of Lahore.

The explosions hit three separate locations as 45,000 Shias marched in a traditional mourning ceremony for the assassination of Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin, some 1,300 years ago during the month of Ramadan. Shias consider Ali as their first imam.

TV footages showed a small blast amid a procession on the street which was followed by another explosion in close proximity. The first two bombs of small intensity went off near Karbala Gamay Shah Imambargah, just when Muslims across Pakistan broke their fast.

Hundreds of people fled from the blast, while others rushed to the area to carry the wounded to safety. Within half an hour, a third and more powerful bomb exploded at Lahore’s Bhatti Chowk at about 7:20 pm. The bomb sites are near the famous Data shrine which too was targeted by terrorists last July, leaving 42 people dead.

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