SIXTEEN people have died after drinking cough syrup suspected of being toxic.
The victims were all drug addicts who apparently drank the cough syrup in an attempt to get high, Lahore police said.
They died at various hospitals in Lahore over the past three days, police said. Two other addicts who drank the cough syrup were being treated.
Police arrested the owners of three drug stores where the cough syrup was sold and sent a sample to determine whether it was toxic.
"At least 16 people, mostly drug addicts, have died after taking the toxic syrup," local police chief Atif Zulfiqar told AFP, updating an earlier death toll of 13.
"Some of the victims were found dead in a graveyard where addicts used to take different kinds of drugs.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, a bomb hidden in a cement construction block exploded in Karachi, killing one person, said senior police officer Farooq Awan. Four other people were wounded, he said.
The bomb contained about one kilogram of explosives and was detonated by a mobile phone, Awan said.
Pakistan suspended mobile phone service throughout most of the country on Saturday and Sunday to prevent attacks against Shi'ite Muslims during a major religious commemoration.
Despite the ban, a pair of bombings over the weekend killed at least 13 people.
Awan said he suspected the bomb in Karachi was meant to target Shi'ites over the weekend, but militants were not able to detonate it because of the mobile phone ban.
Shi'ites are currently observing the holy month of Muharram. Pakistani Shi'ites on Sunday marked Ashoura, the most important day of the month.
Pakistan has a long history of Sunni Muslim extremists targeting Shi'ites, who are considered to be heretics.
Also on Monday, police in Islamabad found and defused a bomb planted underneath the car of one of Pakistan's most prominent television anchors, Hamid Mir of Geo Television.
The bomb was made up of half a kilogram of explosives stuffed in a tin can, said Islamabad police chief Bani Amin. It was placed in a bag and attached to the bottom of Mir's car.
One of Mir's neighbours noticed the bomb underneath the car after the TV anchor returned from a local market, and the police were notified, said Rana Jawad, a senior official at Geo TV.
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