LAHORE, Pakistan, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Bomb blasts killed more than two dozen people and injured scores of others in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, officials said.
Three explosions ripped through the Youm-e-Ali procession marking the Shiite days of remembrance, the SAMAA Pakistani network reported. The BBC said the procession marked the death in the seventh century of the first Shiite imam, Ali bin Abi Talib.
The Wall Street Journal reported 25 killed and 170 injured in two suicide blasts and a third bombing caused by a timed device.
Among the injured were 10 women, SAMAA report said.
SAMAA reported one of the suicide bombers was a police constable. Another bomber's head was found near the site of one blast. The report said he appeared to be a teenager.
After the blasts, enraged protesters set fire to a local police station and officers had to fire into the air to disperse the crowd, the report said.
The BBC, which reported fewer casualties and only one bomb blast, said Lahore has seen sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in recent months, but there had been a lull as floods devastated the country.
