![PAKISTAN-UNREST PAKISTAN-UNREST](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/gettyimages-643999708.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
ISLAMABAD — A powerful explosion hit near a second upscale market in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, a government official said, the latest in a new surge of violence across the country.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
An second explosion in Lahore’s Gulberg area came hours after a blast at another upscale market killed at least five people and wounded 21.
“Initial reports are of an explosion in the Gulberg area,” a Punjab government official told Reuters, requesting anonymity until authorities had more details.
He said the explosion occurred on a main boulevard lined with shopping plazas and restaurants.
Pakistan has been struck by a wave of terrorist attacks in recent weeks, killing at least 130 people across the country and leaving hundreds wounded. The worst of the attacks was at a Sufi shrine in southern Sindh province that killed 90 people this month.
More Must-Reads from TIME
- Eyewitness Accounts From the Trump Rally Shooting
- Politicians Condemn Trump Rally Shooting: ‘No Place for Political Violence in Our Democracy’
- From 2022: How the Threat of Political Violence Is Transforming America
- ‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
- Remembering Shannen Doherty , the Quintessential Gen X Girl
- How Often Do You Really Need to Wash Your Sheets?
- Welcome to the Noah Lyles Olympics
- Get Our Paris Olympics Newsletter in Your Inbox
Contact us at letters@time.com