LAHORE PAKISTAN: An explosion heard in R A Bazaar in Lahore cantonment area on Friday. PAKISTAN NEWS.

The relief teams and ambulances have rushed to the spot of the blast.

Police and security agencies personnel have cordoned off the area after the blast.

LAHORE: The death toll in two blasts at R A Bazaar in Lahore cantonment area on Friday has reached to 13, while 40 others were injured.

The relief teams and ambulances reached to the spot of the blasts and started relief operations after the twin explosions.

Police and security agencies personnel have cordoned off the area.

According to state television two blasts occurred in the area. The sounds of fire were heard after the first blast and than another blast occurred.

The injured were being transferred to hospitals. Several passersby were hit by the bullets in firing after the first explosion, reports said.

According to eyewitness account that the first blast was occurred in a car and another in a motorcycle.

The injured also included women and children, reports said. The authorities have declared emergency in Lahore hospitals.

The roads leading to the cantonment areas have been closed.

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani have condemned the bomb attack in Lahore.

KABUL: A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan.

Several children were among those wounded in the morning explosion, said a doctor at the hospital in Farah city.

Afghan police shouted “Stop! Stop!” at the motorcyclist before he detonated the explosives, provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Faqir Askar said.

Provincial governor Rohul Amin said the deadly blast occurred about 50 meters (55 yards) from his compound in a crowded square in the city of Farah.

Also on Friday, three civilians were wounded in a roadside bomb in Khost province, according to Wazir Pacha, deputy police chief of Khost.