Pakistan mosque attacks

More than 70 people are killed in gun battles at two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in the Pakistani city of Lahore.



“The death toll has been rising as rescuers pull bodies from the mosques, which were packed for Friday midday prayers at the time of the attacks,” said Pakistani police.



Police say they have secured both buildings, but they are still searching for militants who fled the scene.



No-one has yet said they carried out the attacks but suspicion has fallen on the Pakistani Taliban.



The attacks come as controversy rages in Pakistan over blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook