Death toll in Pakistan church blasts rises to 10

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A senior Pakistani hospital official says the death toll in twin blasts outside a church in the eastern city of Lahore has risen to ten.

Dr. Anjum Habib Vohra says 48 people were also wounded in the violence Sunday.

A senior police official in Lahore, Haider Ashraf, says the explosions occurred in quick succession in the Christian neighborhood of Youhana Abad while services were being held inside the church.

Ashraf says police are investigating whether the blasts came from a planted bomb or a suicide attack.

But a spokesman for a faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the violence and said it was the work of suicide bombers.

After the blasts, angry mobs attacked two people they suspected of being involved.