A car bomb at a natural gas filling station in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad has killed 25 people and injured another 125.
Local police chief Aftab Cheema said many of the victims were queuing for fuel for their cars.
The car bomb set off gas cylinders causing a big explosion that destroyed or severely damaged nearby buildings and reduced numerous vehicles to blackened shells.
A Taliban spokesman later claimed responsibility, saying the attack was in retaliation for the killing of one of their commanders in the city.
Many vehicles in Pakistan run on compressed natural gas and there are usually long queues of cars waiting to fill up at stations.
Mr Cheema declined to speculate on the militants' target but said a 'sensitive organisation' had an office close to the filling station.
Local media said the country's main police investigation agency had an office nearby.
