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Two explosions wound 11 in Pakistan, rail track destroyed

ISLAMABAD, June 19 (KUNA) -- At least eleven people including five policemen were wounded on Saturday in two different blast incidents in Pakistan, said police.
Some unknown militants blew up a railway track in Quetta, capital of Southwestern Baluchistan province, only minutes before a Rawalpindi-bound Chiltan Express was to pass the area, said police and railway sources.
Railway sources said that the explosion badly damaged about two feet portion of the track. Police sources confirmed that at least two people were wounded in the incident. Railway authorities said that a team has been dispatched to repair the track.
In a separate incident, said police sources, suspected Taliban militants targeted a police mobile van with a roadside bomb in Dera Ismail Khan district of northern Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa province. Police sources said that a police mobile van was on routine patrol when it hit a roadside bomb.
The explosion wounded at least nine people including five policemen. However, said sources, all of the wounded are in stable condition. (end).
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