Information About Incident 41262-79035-195475 in Lahore Pakistan

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The ISPR said four terrorists approached the mosque inside an officers' residential colony in the Parade Lane and lobbed grenades at worshipers, followed by indiscriminate firing.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Parade Lane
• Matched District: Lahore
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: four terrorists
• Subject: grenades

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

The mosque is predominantly frequented by serving and retired Army officers, soldiers and members of their families and is not open to civilians living in the area. A serving Major General, a Brigadier, one Colonel and two Lt-Colonels were among the officers killed in the attack. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated that 36 people, including 17 children, 10 civilians and nine Army personnel were killed in the attack. The ISPR said four terrorists approached the mosque inside an officers residential colony in the Parade Lane and lobbed grenades at worshipers, followed by indiscriminate firing. Meanwhile, two suicide bombers entered the mosque and blew themselves up, killing 36 people, who were offering the Friday prayers. SF personnel in the area retaliated and two other terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire. The terrorists reportedly scaled the mosque wall to enter the premises and carried out a double suicide attack, and when the people rushed out, their other accomplices hurled hand grenades at them and sprayed bullets with automatic weapons, killing 40 people on the spot and injuring over 86.

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