Blast in Pakistan Kills Seven Children Studying Koran

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Source: Bloomberg

July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Eleven people, seven of them children, were killed and around 20 homes destroyed in an explosion at a house in Pakistan’s Punjab province used for religious education, officials and television channels said.

Explosives stored in the village home near Mian Channu, close to the city of Multan, caused the blast, Kamran Khan, district police chief, said in a telephone interview. “It’s premature to say how many have been injured or killed as it will take time to remove the debris,” he added.

Two victims died in hospital, the GEO television channel said on its Web site, taking the death toll to 11, with dozens injured. People were still trapped in the rubble of destroyed houses, the channel said.

An audio cassette, pamphlets of a previously unknown militant group, two suicide jackets, and two rocket launchers were recovered from the debris of the house, the Agence France- Presse news agency quoted Khan as saying.



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