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A car bomb explosion killed at least 11 people and injured 45 others in Lahore on Monday. According to reports, a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden truck into the main gate of the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) office here. Witnesses said the FIA building has completely collapsed and a number of people are still buried under the rubble, The Dawn reports. TV reports said some of the neighbouring buildings had also been damaged in the explosion. A number of schools and religious institutions are located in the neighbourhood known as Model Town . A number of prominent politicians, including the former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif live in Model Town . There was no immediately claim of responsibility for the blast, which came after a lull of several months in attacks on military and security targets in Pakistan ’s main cities by Al-Qaeda militants and their affiliates in the Pakistani Taliban. Meanwhile, security levels have been raised to high alert across the city.