At least six people have been killed by an explosion in the Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say, according to BBC.

The blast ripped through a shopping area, wounding another 30 people.

The cause is unknown. Initial reports suggested an electricity generator exploded but police said later it may have been a bomb.

Pakistan has been hit by a wave of bombings claimed by Islamist militant groups in recent days. There was no immediate claim for the latest blast.

It happened in Lahore's Defence Housing Authority suburb. Television footage showed buildings and cars damaged by the blast. </s> At least six people have been reported killed and 15 injured in an explosion in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

"This was a suicide blast," Punjab government spokesman Malik Ahmed Khan said on April 5, adding that the attack targeted an army vehicle taking part in Pakistan's census.

Khan said the dead included four soldiers and two civilians.

"It appears to have been an act of terrorism," Punjab provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said.

The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) extremist group claimed responsibility for what it called a suicide attack.

On February 13, a Taliban suicide-bomb attack in Lahore, the capital of Punjab Province, killed 14 people.

With reporting by AFP, AP, and Reuters </s> LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani provincial minister says an explosion has killed six people in the eastern city of Lahore.

Law Minister Rana Sanaullah says it is not yet clear what caused Thursday’s explosion, which took place at an upscale Lahore restaurant. He says the explosion also wounded at least 15 people.

The violence is the latest in a string of brazen suicide bombings and other attacks over the past two weeks that have killed over 125 people.

The attacks have been claimed by an array of militant groups, including the Islamic State group and a splinter Taliban faction, and have prompted a countrywide crackdown on militants.

In just one bombing, which was claimed by IS and which targeted a revered Sufi shrine packed with Shiite worshippers, at least 90 people were killed. </s> A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 18 when he blew himself up near an army vehicle taking part in a census in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, officials in the area said. Punjab government spokesman Malik Ahmed Khan told Geo TV that four soldiers and two civilian bystanders were among the dead.

Start the conversation, or Read more at Reuters. </s> LAHORE, Pakistan: A suicide bomber killed at least six people and wounded 18 when he blew himself up near an army vehicle taking part in a census in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, officials in the area said.

Punjab government spokesman Malik Ahmed Khan told Geo TV that four soldiers and two civilian bystanders were among the dead.

TV footage showed security personnel blocking off the street around the site of the explosion, close to a market.

The blast, the latest in a series that has killed scores of people in Pakistan since the beginning of the year, follows an attack in Lahore last month that killed at least 13 and wounded dozens more.

There was no initial claim of responsibility for the explosion, which some television stations initially said had been caused by a gas leak. </s> At least eight people were killed and 25 were injured on Wednesday in a suicide bombing targeting a police patrol close to a popular Sufi Muslim shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police said.

Five police officers were among the fatalities in the blast near the Data Darbar Sufi shrine, one of the largest in South Asia. </s> LAHORE, Pakistan: A suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded 18 when he blew himself up near an army vehicle in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday, a police official said.

The blast hit a vehicle taking part in Pakistan's census, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. </s> LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani official says at least 12 people have been killed in a car bombing in the eastern city of Lahore. </s> At least 26 people have been killed in a car bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, officials say.

Almost 50 others were injured in the explosion on the busy Ferozepur Road close to a vegetable market in the south of the city.

Reports suggest it was a suicide car bomb and the target may have been police working in the area. Police officers are among the dead.

It is the latest in a series of explosions in Lahore in recent months.

In April, the Pakistani Taliban said they had carried out an attack on workers conducting a government census.

A Taliban faction said it carried out a bomb attack in Lahore in February which killed 13 people and wounded more than 80.
At least six people are killed in a bomb blast in the Pakistani city of Lahore.