30 arrested, case registered

LAHORE — Police on Tuesday arrested 30 suspects and registered a case against four unidentified terrorists in connection with a suicide attack outside Punjab assembly here in which 13 people, including six security officials, were killed.

“We have arrested 30 suspects in connection with the Lahore’s Mall Road blast so far. Investigation is under way and we will reach the mastermind of this attack,” Punjab Government spokesman Zaeem Hussain Qadri told reporters here, as the country mourned the victims of the Taleban-claimed attack. Official funerals were held on Tuesday for the security officials in different districts of Punjab province.

According to the FIR, four suspected terrorists reached outside the Punjab Assembly building on the Mall Road where a protest demonstration of chemists was under way.

“Police tried to stop a suspected terrorist, aged between 17 and 20, to reach near the police officers who were busy negotiating with the leaders of chemists to end protest when he blew himself up. His other accomplices, however, managed to escape,” the FIR said.