Pakistan police say bombing kills nearly 20 people near eastern border with India

Pakistanis gather to identify bodies of their relatives killed in a bomb blast at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 2, 2014. A bomb exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint Sunday, killing scores of people near the country's eastern border with India in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) (The Associated Press)

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A woman mourns for her relative next to the bodies of bomb blast victims at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. A bomb exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint Sunday, killing scores of people near the country's eastern border with India in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) (The Associated Press)

Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a cordoned road leading to the site of a bomb explosion in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014. A bomb exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint Sunday, killing tens of people near the country's eastern border with India in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) (The Associated Press)

ISLAMABAD – A provincial Pakistani police chief says a bomb blast has killed nearly 20 people near the country's eastern border with India.

Mushtaq Sukhera says the bomb exploded outside a restaurant near a Pakistani paramilitary soldiers' checkpoint at Wagah border on the outskirts of Lahore city.

He says the death toll is likely to rise because there are over 50 people wounded, with several of them in critical condition.

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing.