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Bombing near bus station kills nine in Pakistan
Feb 23, 2012, 7:06 GMT
Islamabad - A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Pakistan's north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 30, police and health officials said.
The bombing took place in the outskirts of provincial capital Peshawar as the bus station was crowded with passengers.
Dr Rahim Jaan, the head of Lady Reading Hospital, said that the facility had received nine bodies and more than 30 injured. Two of those killed were children.
'The death toll might rise since many of the injured are in critical condition,' he said.
Senior police official Imtiaz Altaf said that it was a car bomb but investigators were not clear whether the explosives in the car were detonated by remote control or a suicide bomber driving the car.
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