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Ten killed in blast near Pakistani cinema (1st Lead)

May 22, 2009, 14:44 GMT

Islamabad - At least 10 people were killed and more than 70 were injured in an explosion outside a cinema in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's volatile North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) on Friday, a senior police official said. The explosion took place inside a car parked near the Tasveer Mahal (Picture Palace) cinema located on a busy street Khyber Bazar. The city police chief Safwat Ghayyur told reporters at the scene that at least 10 people were confirmed dead in the blast and more than 70 were injured. 'Seven of them are in critical condition,' he said. Ghayyur said according to the initial estimations between 40 and 45 kilos of explosives were used in the blast that partly demolished the cinema where more than 100 people were present. No one has so far claimed responsibility of the attack but a spokesman of Aawami National Party, which rules the NWFP, linked the attack with the ongoing military offensive in Swat and its neighbouring districts. The blast came one week after a car bomb apparently outside a cyber cafe killed more than a dozen people in Peshawar.

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