Bomb blast near children’s rides at Pakistan park Easter celebration

Eric John, bottom, who survived Sunday’s attack, cries during the funeral of his cousin. The death toll from a massive suicide bombing targeting Christians gathered on Easter in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore rose on Monday as the country started observing a three-day mourning period following the attack.

Women try to comfort a mother who lost her son in bomb attack in Lahore, Pakistan.

Members of a civil society group light candles during a vigil for the victims of Sunday’s suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan.

Pakistani Christians mourn the death of a blast victim in Lahore. Pakistan’s army launched raids and arrested suspects after a Taliban suicide bomber targeting Christians over Easter killed 72 people including many children in a park crowded with families.

The scene of the attack on the day after the blast in Lahore, Pakistan.

Pakistani Christians mourn a blast victim at a cemetery in Lahore.

People mourn over the coffin of a victim a day after a suicide bomb attack at a park, in Lahore, Pakistan.

People who were injured in a suicide bomb attack are hospitalized in Lahore, Pakistan.

Pakistani police officers stand guard at the site of a bomb blast in a park in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday.

A woman injured in the bomb blast is comforted by a family member at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday.

A man carries an injured child to a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, on Sunday.

Pakistani rescuers carry a body from a bomb blast site in Lahore, Pakistan, in an ambulance Sunday.

Pakistani emergency workers and police officers gather at a bomb blast site in Lahore on Sunday.  (ARIF ALI / AFP/Getty Images)