Twin bombs kill 26 in Lahore

At least 26 people were killed by two bombs that ripped through a federal police office and an advertising agency in Lahore on Tuesday, officials said.The first blast demolished part of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) office here, exposing the inside of the building and leaving piles of blackened rubble and burning cars.”Twenty two people were killed in the blast that took place in FIA premises. It seems that a bomb was planted somewhere in the building,” local agency chief Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmed told AFP. Pools of blood and small pieces of human flesh lay scattered on the ground outside the eight-storey building, along with clothes and pairs of shoes that were abandoned by people as they ran away, an AFP reporter said. Police cordoned off the area while emergency workers carrying stretchers scrambled over the rubble. A car was set ablaze by the force of the blast and others were covered in downed electricity cables and rubble. The building was evacuated because of fears it could collapse, television channels reported. A second bomb went off killing four outside an advertising agency in a mainly highly restricted area of model Town Block-F near to Bilawal House and residence of Amir Mehmood here administrator, Mian Ejaz said. Police said the second attack was caused by a suicide car bomb. The car had two people inside and blew up after it was stopped at the gate of an advertising agency office.Police confirmed there was another blast but said they did not immediately have a death toll. The latest explosions came a week after two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a prestigious Naval War College in Lahore, killing at least five people and injuring 19, officials said.