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Death toll in Pakistan blasts raises to 50
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 06 - 2013


At least 50 people were killed and more than 100
wounded in a string of attacks Sunday across Pakistan, news agencies quoted officials as saying.
The deadliest incident was a suicide bombing of a Shiite mosque in
south-western Quetta city, killing 28.
Around 70 people were injured in the assault, which came a
fortnight after multiple attacks killed 30 in the city including
female university students, said Khan Wasseh, spokesman for the
paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC).
It is believed a suicide bomber disguised as a woman detonated
explosives he was wearing at the main entrance of the mosque in the
Hazara Town area of Quetta, a police official said.
Minutes later, another blast hit a shopping centre in the same
locality, Khan Wasseh said.
Also Sunday, suspected militants attacked two convoys of security
forces at separate points in north-western Pakistan, killing 22
people and injuring 56, officials said.
Four troops, two children and one woman were among the dead in
bombings just hours apart, police and military officials said.
In the first incident, a car bomb targeting paramilitary troops on
patrol just outside Peshawar killed 18 civilians and injured 46
people, police official Shafiullah Khan said.
In a separate attack, four army soldiers were killed when their
vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the North Waziristan tribal district
near the Afghan border, military officials said. At least 10 troops
were wounded in that incident, a statement by the military's media
wing said.
Four troops from the Frontier Corps were among those wounded in
the blast in Peshawar, capital of the volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
province, Shafiullah said.
Two of the three vehicles, carrying around two dozen troops,
passed through the area safely. However, the third was hit by mortar
shells fitted in a car parked at a fuel station, the police official
said.
The attack used at least 40 kilograms of explosives, said bomb
disposal squad official Abdul Haq, who was at the scene to gather
forensic evidence for investigation.
The blast damaged four shops and a dozen vehicles, police official
Abidur Rehman said.
No group claimed responsibility for any of the attacks.


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