Bomb Explodes on Busy Main Street in Downtown Lahore

May 27th, 2009 - VOA News

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Bomb Explodes on Busy Main Street in Downtown Lahore - Voice of America At least eight people were killed and scores of others injured when a bomb exploded on a busy main street in Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's Punjab province.

People were going about their business mid-morning in downtown Lahore when a bomb went off near a police station on one of the city's busiest streets - commonly know as the Mall.

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