Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 28 Mar 2016

1. Taliban group admits Lahore terror attack

A faction of the Taliban in Pakistan, Jamaat ul-Ahrar, has claimed responsibility for the bomb which killed 72 people and injured around 300 in a children's park in Lahore on Sunday evening. A suicide attacker blew himself up close to the entrance of the Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, deliberately targeting Christians on Easter Sunday.

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