Lahore, March 12: Two near simultaneous blasts ripped through a market within the heavily-guarded cantonment here today, killing at least four persons in the latest in a series of terror attacks across Pakistan.
Officials of a state-run rescue service said four persons were killed. Several persons were also injured in the blasts in the R A Bazar area and were rushed to nearby military and civilian hospitals.
There were reports that the blasts were preceded by firing.
Army troops cordoned off the area and barred people and media from going to the site of the blasts.
All roads and entry points in the cantonment are guarded by the army and it could not be immediately ascertained how the attackers managed to evade the security dragnet.
An emergency was declared in hospitals across Lahore.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
–PTI