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Teenage bomber kills 13 in Lahore
LAHORE – A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up near a religious procession of Shia Muslims in the Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 50, officials said.
Islamist militants linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban have attacked such religious gatherings in the past as part of their campaign to topple the US-backed Pakistani government. “A 13-year-old boy detonated explosives as policemen tried to check him at a cordon near the procession,” Lahore police chief Aslam Tarin said.
There was also a blast in Karachi, where initial reports said one policeman was killed and two wounded.
– (Reuters)
Schoolboy attack set up on Facebook
LONDON – A British court heard yesterday that a 15-year-old schoolboy was killed in a knife attack that was planned on Facebook.
GCSE student Sofyen Belamouadden was “hunted down” by a heavily armed group of 20 teenagers at Victoria station before being stabbed, punched and kicked, jurors were told.
Belamouadden was killed after tensions between pupils from two west London schools, the Old Bailey heard.
The attack, in March last year, was said to have been in revenge for an “inconsequential” skirmish at Victoria the previous day when a boy from a rival school had been left with a bloody nose. – (PA)