LAHORE: Death toll hit 73 as the gunmen attacked worshippers from a minority sect in two areas of Lahore on Friday, taking hostages and raging hours-long battle with security forces.
Fifty people were wounded in the attacks and are being treated in different medical facilities across the city.
The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw grenades at two worship places of Ahmadis in residential neighborhoods of Model Town and Garhi Shahu in Lahore.
Police took positions and crawl toward the building where gunmen were present.
Near 45 dead bodies have been found from compound at Garhi Shahu only as the gunmen held the people hostages. While, 28 people were killed in Model Town, the channel added.
In Model Town, site of the other attack, police said one gunmen had been arrested and another killed. Other attackers were said to escape and one fired at a television van before the area was made safe.
"He was young, clean-shaven. He sprayed bullets at our van while fleeing the scene," Rabia Mehmood, a reporter for a local TV channel, told a British news agency.
Witnesses said the assaults were launched shortly after prayers.
"I saw some gunmen run toward the Ahmadis' place of worship and then I heard blasts and gunfire," Mohammad Nawaz, a resident, told Reuters.
Fifty people were wounded in the attacks and are being treated in different medical facilities across the city.
The gunmen opened fire shortly after Friday prayers and threw grenades at two worship places of Ahmadis in residential neighborhoods of Model Town and Garhi Shahu in Lahore.
Police took positions and crawl toward the building where gunmen were present.
Near 45 dead bodies have been found from compound at Garhi Shahu only as the gunmen held the people hostages. While, 28 people were killed in Model Town, the channel added.
In Model Town, site of the other attack, police said one gunmen had been arrested and another killed. Other attackers were said to escape and one fired at a television van before the area was made safe.
"He was young, clean-shaven. He sprayed bullets at our van while fleeing the scene," Rabia Mehmood, a reporter for a local TV channel, told a British news agency.
Witnesses said the assaults were launched shortly after prayers.
"I saw some gunmen run toward the Ahmadis' place of worship and then I heard blasts and gunfire," Mohammad Nawaz, a resident, told Reuters.
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