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Bosonic Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-11 04:19 AM
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Pakistan unrest: Quetta troops hit by suicide attacks
Source: BBC

Suicide bombers have attacked the residence of a military official in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 20 people.

The first attacker detonated a car bomb, and a second militant blew himself up in the house of the city's Frontier Corps chief.

Some of the dead were members of the corps - a paramilitary force battling militants on the Afghan border.

No group has said it carried out the attack.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14816487
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