FACTBOX: Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 9

Fri Jan 9, 2009 11:39am EST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 11:30 a.m. EST on Friday.

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*LAHORE - Four small explosions went off outside a theater in the center of the eastern city of Lahore wounding five people, witnesses and rescue workers said.

QUETTA - Four people were killed and 10 wounded when a land mine blew up their van in Dera Bugti district of the southwestern province of Baluchistan, where separatist militants have been fighting a low-level insurgency for years, intelligence officials said. A man claiming to be a spokesman for a separatist faction telephoned reporters to say his group was responsible.

(Compiled by Islamabad bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)

 

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