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Blast at Pakistan town 'kills 26'
Source: BBC
17 February 2012 Last updated at 20:29 GMT
Blast at Pakistan town 'kills 26'
A suicide bomb attack on a market in a Shia Muslim area of north-west Pakistan has killed 26 people and injured at least 50 others, officials say.
The attacker blew himself up close to a mosque in the town of Parachinar in Pakistan's tribal region of Kurram.
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Fazal Saeed, the leader of a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban, said it carried out the attack.
"We have targeted the Shia community of Parachinar because they were involved in activities against us," he told Reuters news agency.
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Blast at Pakistan town 'kills 26'
A suicide bomb attack on a market in a Shia Muslim area of north-west Pakistan has killed 26 people and injured at least 50 others, officials say.
The attacker blew himself up close to a mosque in the town of Parachinar in Pakistan's tribal region of Kurram.
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Fazal Saeed, the leader of a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban, said it carried out the attack.
"We have targeted the Shia community of Parachinar because they were involved in activities against us," he told Reuters news agency.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17077358