DHAKA: At least seven people were killed on Tuesday when the Pakistani police clashed with followers of a fiery preacher in the eastern city of Lahore.

Hospital officials said, reports The Straits Times.

The clashes involved supporters of Canadian-Pakistani Tahir-ul-Qadri who held a major anti-corruption march last year prior to the May 2013 election that saw the country’s first democratic handover of power.

‘We received seven dead bodies including two women. All of them had bullet wounds,’ said Dr Abdul Rauf, medical superintendent at the city’s Jinnah Hospital.

‘We also received 80 injured, 40 with bullet injuries and 40 with other wounds. Two injured are critical,’ he said.

BDST: 1800 HRS, JUNE 17, 2014