LAHORE, Pakistan — A Taliban suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a congested neighborhood here on Tuesday after failing to breach the security cordon around the city’s Police Headquarters, killing at least five people and wounding at least 23, officials said.
“The target was the main building of Police Headquarters,” said Mushtaq Sukhera, the police chief of Punjab Province.
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Mr. Khan, 51, a Portland city worker who was born in Pakistan and has lived in the United States since 1988, admitted to helping finance the attack and to providing assistance to the wife of one of the attackers afterward. He is due to be sentenced on June 8.
Salman Masood contributed reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan.
