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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 05:39 AM
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Carnage in Pakistan market attack
Source: BBC News

At least 25 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a village market in north-west Pakistan, police say.

The explosion is said to have taken place at a busy intersection close to the garrison town of Kohat.

Most of the dead are said to be members of the Shia Muslim minority. The area has a history of sectarian tension.

A little-known militant group calling itself Lahskar-e-Jhangvi al Almi says it carried out the attack.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8262199.stm
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