DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed and 78 injured as twin Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Christian churches during Sunday mass in the country’s eastern city of Lahore.

It is the latest attack on religious minorities in Pakistan, reports the Times of India.

The blasts sparked mob violence in the area in which two other suspected militants were killed and later their bodies were set on fire.

The bombings occurred at Catholic and Christ churches, located around half a kilometer apart, in quick succession in the city’s Youhanabad area, one of Pakistan’s biggest Christian neighborhoods, a home to about a million Christians.

The first suicide bomber detonated his strapped-explosives outside the main gate of St John’s Catholic Church. The second blast occurred minutes later in the compound of Christ Church.

Nabila Ghazanfar, a spokesperson for the Punjab police, said the deaths from the attack on Sunday included 11 Christians, two police officers deployed for security outside the churches and the two suspects beaten to death by the mob, in addition to the two bombers.

BDST: 0859 HRS, MAR 16, 2015