High alert in Pakistan as suicide bomb victims buried


  • World
  • Sunday, 28 Jan 2007

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police were on high alert in Peshawar on Sunday, as more than 2,000 people gathered for the funerals of 15 victims of a suicide bomb attack, including the police chief of the volatile northwestern city. 

About 30 people were also wounded in the blast that went off shortly before Shi'ite Muslims, observing their holiest month of Moharram, were to begin a procession in the heart of North West Frontier Province's capital. 

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