LAHORE: Mixed martial arts fighter Bashir Ahmed was in the vicinity of the Lahore blast and missed the attack by only a few minutes.
Lahore became a victim of terrorism once again when an explosion occurred in Y block DHA near an under construction building. The blast has taken the lives of 10 people and at least 30 have been reported injured.
MMA fighter Bashir Ahmed, who is often credited with being the man to introduce the fighting form to Pakistani audiences, had been in a close-by hair saloon had left only a few minutes ago when the explosion happened.
Talking to a private news organisation, the MMA star said his driver had told him initially that it was a transformer exploding, but that he knew instantly that it had been a bomb explosion due to his “military background.”
Expressing his frustrations to his fans on social media, the fighter took to his facebook posting “What kind of demented thought process justifies a random bombing, We are going to take these cowards on together as a nation. And I mean cowards.”
