Suicide bomber kills 11 at mosque in NW Pakistan

Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:20pm EDT
 
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomb attack killed at least 11 people at a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, the third suicide attack of the day.

Police said the attack took place in a military district in Kohat town. The deaths in Kohat brought the toll for the day to 48 as a militant backlash intensified following the army's storming of radical mosque in Islamabad earlier this month.

 
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