Lahore, Pakistan – Police have arrested seven suspects in two bombings last week that left eight people dead in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore, an official said Sunday.
The suspects, including a woman and her husband, were picked up in separate raids in Lahore over the past two days, said Chaudhry Shafqaat Ahmed, a senior Lahore police investigator.
None of those arrested, who were not identified, has been charged in the case, and Ahmed would not say what role they are suspected to have had in the bombings Thursday. No one has claimed responsibility for the explosions.
One bomb went off near a public park, and a second exploded about 90 minutes later in a crowded bazaar in Lahore.
A man who was among 25 people injured in one of the blasts died Sunday.
Pakistan has seen bombings and attacks against Westerners since its president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, allied with the United States in its war against terrorism following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Islamic militants in Pakistan, some with links to the Taliban in Afghanistan, have been blamed for the violence, apparently in retaliation for Musharraf’s decision.
A U.S. military campaign ousted the Taliban militia from power in Afghanistan in late 2001 for harboring al-Qaeda.
