Taliban admit Lahore blast attack
Updated on 28 May 2009
The Taliban in Pakistan has claimed responsibility for an attack on police and intelligence agency offices that killed about 30 people.
Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy to Pakistani Taliban chief, Baitullah Mehsud, told The Associated Press in a telephone call that Wednesday's suicide attack in Lahore "was in response to the Swat operation where innocent people have been killed".
About 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded when gunmen fired and lobbed grenades at offices of the police and top intelligence agency then detonated an explosive-laden van.
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