![]() ![]() "The first drove into the security post and they opened fire. "Two suicide bombers attacked the naval college," Lahore police chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal told AFP. Two buses and several cars caught fire afterwards. The blasts sent thick black smoke billowing over the college and scattered debris and human remains at the scene, which is just off the city's historic Mall Road. President Pervez Musharraf condemned the bombings, vowing that the "government will not be cowed down by such acts" and expressing the "resolve to fight against extremism and terrorism," the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported. The attack was the fourth in five days in Pakistan, posing a major challenge to the country's incoming government, set to be a coalition led by the parties of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and former premier Nawaz Sharif. One bomber rammed a motorcycle into the gate of the Naval War College in the heart of Pakistan's second biggest city, then the second drove another bike into the parking lot where he detonated explosives, they said. ![]() ![]() Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a prestigious naval college in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, officials said. ![]()
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