March 8, 2010 - Islamists show no mercy for children or people of their own faith. Noor Mohammad had just sat down with his classmates in Lahore when a huge car bomb pulverised part of his school and turned his religious studies into a living hell. “We had just assembled in our classroom when it looked as if hell had broken with a huge blast that rocked our school,” he told AFP at the lunar-scape bomb site strewn with collapsed masonry, twisted metal and broken tree branches. A thick ball of smoke coiled into the sky from outside the window of his classroom at a privately run Muslim seminary teaching young boys the Quran. Wood panels shattered into shards, hitting and injuring students. “There was panic as students, many of them carrying their injured friends, rushed to the exit in a bid to find a safe place,” Mohammad said. As he emerged from the severely damaged building, he remembers people crying and running in different directions. Lightly wounded, he was now nursing a wide bandage wrapped around his head. The bomb attack during the Monday rush hour in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore caused major destruction, reducing a police building used to interrogate suspected militants and nearby houses into thick piles of rubble. Officials said 11 people were killed and more than 60 others wounded, but rescue workers feared more people were still trapped under the debris. Click below for story.
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