April 2017 Lahore suicide bombing

April 2017 Lahore suicide bombing
Part of the War in North-West Pakistan
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Attack type	Suicide bombing
Weapons	Explosive belt
Deaths	8 (+1 bomber)
Non-fatal injuries	24
Perpetrators	Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan
Assailants	a suicide bomber

Terrorist attacks in Pakistan (since 2001)
Italics indicates attacks resulting in more than 40 deaths ‡ indicates attacks resulting in more than 100 deaths Underline indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
2001	1st Bahawalpur
2002	1st Karachi 2nd Karachi
2003	1st Quetta 1st Rawalpindi
2004	2nd Quetta 3rd Karachi 1st Fateh Jang 1st Multan
2005	1st Mandi Bahauddin (Ahmadiyya)
2006	4th Karachi Dargai
2007	1st Dera Ismail Khan July bombings ‡ 1st Parachinar 2nd Rawalpindi 5th Karachi ‡ 1st Charsadda 3rd Rawalpindi (Bhutto assassination)
2008	2nd Charsadda 2nd Parachinar 1st Swat 1st Darra Adam Khel 1st Islamabad 2nd Islamabad 2nd Dera Ismail Khan 1st Wah 2nd Swat 1st Peshawar 3rd Islamabad 1st Orakzai ‡ 2nd Peshawar 3rd Dera Ismail Khan
2009	4th/5th Dera Ismail Khan (January violence) 6th Dera Ismail Khan 2nd Lahore (Sri Lankan cricket) 1st Khyber 3rd Lahore 4th Islamabad Chakwal 7th/8th Dera Ismail Khan (May attacks) 4th Lahore Upper Dir 3rd Peshawar 5th Lahore Khanewal Kohat 4th Peshawar 4th Rawalpindi Shangla 6th Lahore 5th Islamabad 5th Peshawar ‡ 5th Rawalpindi 6th Peshawar 6th Rawalpindi 7th Lahore 1st Dera Ghazi Khan 1st Lower Dir 6th Karachi
2010	Lakki Marwat ‡ 1st Bajaur 2nd Lower Dir 7th Karachi 2nd Khyber 3rd Khyber 8th/9th/10th Lahore U.S consulate/Timergarah attack 2nd/3rd Kohat 8th Peshawar 11th Lahore (Ahmadiyya) 9th Dera Ismail Khan 12th Lahore (Sufi) 1st Mohmand ‡ 13th Lahore (Shia) 3rd Quetta 2nd Darra Adam Khel 8th Karachi (CID) 2nd Mohmand 2nd Bajaur
2011	Faisalabad 9th Peshawar 2nd Dera Ghazi Khan 3rd Charsadda 9th Karachi (PNS Mehran) 10th Peshawar 10th Dera Ismail Khan (Kulachi police station) 4th Khyber 4th Quetta Karachi target killings ‡ 1st Mastung
2012	5th Khyber 1st Rahim Yar Khan 3rd Parachinar 1st Kohistan 11th Peshawar 3rd Bajaur 5th Quetta 12th Peshawar 6th Khyber Mansehra 4th Parachinar 2nd Darra Adam Khel 1st Khuzdar 13th Peshawar (Bacha Khan Intl. Airport) 7th Khyber 11th Dera Ismail Khan 14th Peshawar 15th Peshawar 6th Quetta
2013	7th Quetta/3rd Swat ‡ 8th Quetta 10th Karachi Election day Quaid-e-Azam residency 9th Quetta Mardan 16th Peshawar Nanga Parbat 10th Quetta/17th Peshawar 14th Lahore 5th Parachinar 12th Dera Ismail Khan (prison attack) 11th Karachi 11th Quetta 12th Quetta 18th Peshawar ‡ 19th Peshawar
2014	12th Karachi (Chaudhry Aslam assassination) 1st Bannu 20th Peshawar 13th Karachi (Jinnah International Airport) 6th Islamabad 13th Quetta Wagah Border 21st Peshawar (school massacre) ‡
2015	Shikarpur 22nd Peshawar 15th Lahore 14th Karachi 2nd Mastung Attock Camp Badaber Taunsa Sharif 14th Quetta Jacobabad 6th Parachinar
2016	15th Quetta 4th Charsadda (Bacha Khan University) 23rd Peshawar 16th Lahore 16th Quetta 3rd Mohmand 17th Quetta 2nd Khuzdar
2017	13th Dera Ismail Khan 7th Parachinar 17th Lahore 24th Peshawar Sehwan 5th Charsadda 8th Parachinar 18th Lahore 25th Peshawar 3rd Mastung 18th Quetta/9th Parachinar Chaman 19th Lahore 20th Lahore 4th Bajaur 19th Quetta 1st Harnai 14th Dera Ismail Khan (Ataullah Shah) Jhal Magsi 26th Peshawar 27th Peshawar 20th Quetta
2018	28th Peshawar 4th Mastung/2nd Bannu ‡ 15th Dera Ismail Khan Election day violence 21th Quetta 2nd Orakzai 15th Karachi (Chinese consulate)
2019	1st Loralai 2nd Loralai 1st Ziarat

On 5 April 2017, a suicide bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 24 near a Pakistan Army vehicle taking part in the census in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. The injured were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) and General Hospital. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility, saying it was carried out in revenge against security personnel.^[1]^[2]^[3]

On the 8th of April, Pakistani police killed 10 Taliban gunmen in a gun battle in Lahore.^[4]

References[edit]

↑ "Pakistan census team hit by deadly blast". BBC News. 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
↑ "5 armed forces personnel slain in Lahore blast targeting census team". 5 April 2017.
↑ Pakistan blast: Lahore census team hit by suspected suicide bombing, BBC, 5 April 2017
↑ Pakistani police say 10 militants killed in gun battle in Lahore, Reuters, 8 April 2017, Mubasher Bukhari

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