Updated - February 17, 2015 03:59 pm IST
Published - February 17, 2015 01:53 pm IST - LAHORE
Residents carry an injured man from the site of an explosion outside the police headquarters in Lahore.
Eight persons were killed in an apparent suicide bombing outside a police complex in this eastern Pakistan city on Tuesday.
The incident took place near Police Lines in Qila Gujar Singh area of the city, Pakistan’s second-largest and the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
According to initial reports, a suicide bomber came from a hotel outside the Police Lines and blew himself up, Express Tribune reported.
Some reports said the blast was followed by rapid gunfire.
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