Three back-to-back blasts went off near a market in this eastern Pakistani city tonight, but there was no immediate report of any casualty, hours after 45 people were killed and over 100 others injured when two suicide bombers targeted the army in the cantonment.
The first explosive device went off in an empty plot of land near Moon Market in Lahore, state-run Rescue 1122 service spokesman Fahim Jahanzeb said.
Soon after, a bomb planted in a Suzuki car went off outside the home of an air force officer in a nearby residential colony. It was followed minutes later by yet another blast in the same area.
Initial reports said several persons were injured in the blasts though this could not be independently confirmed.
Footage on television showed that the car involved in the second blast was completely destroyed. Police officials were quoted by TV news channels as saying that all three blasts were of low intensity.
Earlier in the day, 45 people, including 10 soldiers, were killed and 100 others injured when two suicide attackers blew themselves up near army vehicles conducting a patrol in RA Bazar.
The third blast added to the panic prevailing in the city and shops and commercial establishments in Moon Market and other parts of Lahore closed down.
Sixty-two people were killed in a suicide attack on Moon Market in December 2009.
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