Pakistan Mourns Bombing Victims

By Here & Now
Pakistan Mourns Bombing Victims
Pakistani Christian mourners attend a funeral ceremony of a blast victim of the March 27 suicide bombing in Lahore on March 28, 2016. Pakistan's army launched raids and arrested suspects after a Taliban suicide bomber targeting Christians over Easter killed 72 people including many children in a park crowded with families. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistan Mourns Bombing Victims
Pakistani Christian mourners attend a funeral ceremony of a blast victim of the March 27 suicide bombing in Lahore on March 28, 2016. Pakistan's army launched raids and arrested suspects after a Taliban suicide bomber targeting Christians over Easter killed 72 people including many children in a park crowded with families. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Pakistan Mourns Bombing Victims

By Here & Now
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Families are burying their dead after a suicide bomber struck a crowded public park in Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday. More than 70 people were killed and hundreds more injured. A Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility, saying it targeted Christians celebrating Easter. Shazeb Jillani, the BBC correspondent in Lahore, tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that many Muslims were also killed.

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