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Explosion at Pakistan bus terminal leaves at least 30 dead
Jan 10, 2012, 11:04 GMT
Peshawar, Pakistan - A bomb exploded Tuesday at a bus terminal in Pakistan's north-western tribal region near the Afghan border, killing at least 30 people and injuring 64, security officials said.
'The explosives were packed in a pickup which was detonated with a remote-controlled device,' said Jamil Khan, a senior security officer in Khyber, one of the seven tribal districts where the Taliban and al-Qaeda have hideouts and where the blast occurred.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the Jamrud Bazar area, but a security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said it targeted members of an anti-Taliban militia from the Zakha Khel tribe.
'These people were receiving regular threats from the Taliban,' the official said.
Twenty-two bodies and 38 injured were received at the Jamrud Hospital in the Khyber district while eight bodies and 26 injured were taken to a medical centre in Peshawar, capital of neighbouring Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, said Dr Samin Khan, the head of the Jamrud Hospital.
Mujahid Khan, a spokesman for the private Edhi ambulance service, said three soldiers from the paramilitary Frontier Corps were among the victims.
Tribesmen in various districts have raised militias to assist government forces against militants.
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