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  • Blast during Eid prayers kills over 50 in Pak

    ISLAMABAD: At least 54 people were killed and over 100 injured on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, where former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao was offering Eid prayers. Sherpao escaped unhurt.

    About 1,200 people were present in the Jama Masjid at Sherpao village, 40 km northwest of Peshawar, in Charsadda district when the attacker detonated the bomb, police said, adding that the toll could rise. Three security personnel were among the dead.

    Sherpao, who was interior minister in President Pervez Musharraf's recently dissolved government and who is running in January 8 parliamentary elections, was the likely target of the attack at the mosque in his home village, the government said...Read...
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