SIALKOT (Pakistan): A suicide attacker carrying a bomb in a briefcase struck at a Shiite mosque crammed with worshippers in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 50 during Friday prayers.
Troops were deployed in this city to restore order after the bombing, suspected by a prominent Shiite cleric to be retaliation for the killing last weekend by security forces of a top al-Qaeda operative and Sunni militant accused in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
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