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Suicide bomb kills 31 at Pakistan funeral

A hospital administrator says the death toll in a suicide bombing at a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwestern Pakistan has now risen to 31.

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A hospital administrator says the death toll in a suicide bombing at a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwestern Pakistan has now risen to 31.

The blast took place at the funeral for the wife of a militia commander close to the key city of Peshawar and not far from the tribally administered regions that border Afghanistan where militants are at their strongest.

Jamal Shah, a doctor at the main hospital in Peshawar, says it has received 31 bodies and 32 wounded from the explosion.


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