PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police were on high alert in Peshawar on Sunday, as more than 2,000 people gathered for funerals of a police chief and fellow officers among 15 victims of a suicide bomb attack in the northwestern city.
About 30 people were wounded in the blast on Saturday evening, 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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