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The death toll in the suicide blast outside Data Darbar, a Sufi shrine located in Lahore, rose to 11, authorities said on Thursday.
Islamabad: The death toll in the suicide blast outside Data Darbar, a Sufi shrine located in Lahore, rose to 11, authorities said on Thursday.
A Lahore police officer, identified as Saddam Hussain, breathed his last after succumbing to injuries earlier today, Geo News reported quoting an official from Mayo Hospital in Lahore.
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Around 26 others who suffered injuries in the blast are still being treated in the hospital, two of whom are in critical condition, the official added. The blast, which targetted a police van stationed outside the entrance of Data Darbar, killed 10 people on Wednesday.
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According to Shahbaz Gill, spokesperson for the chief minister of Punjab, the suicide bomber was a 15-year-old boy who blew himself up near an Elite Force police van outside the 11th-century shrine in Lahore. (ANI)