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India condemns Lahore bombings

Pakistani volunteers remove a body from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building after gunmen attacked in Lahore, Pakistan on October 15, 2009. Militants unleashed coordinated attacks on Pakistani police in which 39 people died, storming offices in Lahore and bombing a northwest station to escalate 11 days of carnage. UPI/Muhammad Bilal.
Pakistani volunteers remove a body from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building after gunmen attacked in Lahore, Pakistan on October 15, 2009. Militants unleashed coordinated attacks on Pakistani police in which 39 people died, storming offices in Lahore and bombing a northwest station to escalate 11 days of carnage. UPI/Muhammad Bilal. | License Photo

NEW DELHI, March 13 (UPI) -- India's government Saturday condemned bomb attacks in Lahore, Pakistan, that killed at least 57 people and injured more than 100.

"Our condolences go out to the families of those killed by these acts of terrorism," India's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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India has blamed Pakistan-based terrorists for the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, which killed 166 people and wounded more than 300 others.

The Lahore bombers detonated their explosives near army vehicles as residents, many of them women and children, gathered nearby for weekly Muslim prayers.

A series of small bombs exploded elsewhere in Lahore hours later, but no one was killed, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.

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