Suicide attack at census team kills six in eastern Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, April 5 (Xinhua) -- At least six people including four army personnel and two civilians were killed and 14 others injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Wednesday morning, officials said.
Provincial government spokesperson Malik Muhammad Khan said that the bomber attacked a van carrying a census team in Bedian road of Lahore, the capital city of the province.
He said that the security of the census team has been beefed up following the incident and the census process would not be affected by the incident.
Khan said that no group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, however, a search operation has been kicked off in the area to arrest the facilitator of the bomber.
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Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for suicide attack on census team
ISLAMABAD, April 5 (Xinhua) -- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a census team in the country's eastern Punjab province, which left six people killed and 15 others injured, local Urdu media reported.
Express News said that TTP spokesperson Muhammad Khurasani took credit of the attack in a statement.
Spokesperson of Punjab government Malik Muhammad Khan said that the suicide bomber attacked a van carrying the census team in Bedian road of Lahore, the capital city of the province.
He said that the killed people included four soldiers and two civilians.
The country's army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa said that all the soldiers and civilians who got killed in the attack were on census duty.
Census is a national obligation and will be completed on every cost despite the attack, he added.
The crime investigation department (CTD) shared initial reports of the blast with the province's Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, saying the attacker was aged between 18 and 24 and was carrying an estimated 10 kg of explosive materials in his vest.
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