Pakistanis attend funerals for 9 killed in suicide bombing
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Hundreds of Pakistani mourners have attended the funerals of nine people — five police officers and four civilians — killed when a Taliban suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore the day before.
The checkpoint is near a religious group's main congregation place in the neighborhood of Raiwind in Lahore, the Punjab provincial capital.
Punjab chief minister, Shahbaz Sharif, and other officials attended the police funerals on Thursday.
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At least 27 people were wounded in Wednesday's attack, which was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Lahore has seen many bomb and suicide attacks in recent years, killing scores.
On Easter Sunday in 2016, at least 75 people died and hundreds were wounded in a suicide bombing at a park.