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ISLAMABAD, March 5 (KUNA) -- More than 30 people were wounded Thursday
evening in an explosion that ripped through a mosque in a northern Pakistani
district, said police.
Police sources told KUNA that an explosion ripped through a mosque at the
time when dozens of people were offering evening Maghreb prayer in Islamic
Colony of Dera Ismail Khan district of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Sources said that more than thirty people were wounded in the blast and
several were in critical condition.
It was not immediately clear whether it was a bomb blast or suicide
explosion. However, sources suggested it was a hand-grenade attack. (end)
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