Separate blasts kill 40 in Pakistan: police | Reuters
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By Gul Yusufzai and Javed Hussain | QUETTA/PARACHINAR, Pakistan QUETTA/PARACHINAR, Pakistan Bombs killed at least 40 people in Pakistan on Friday, with a suicide car bomber killing 13 in the southwestern city of Quetta, and two blasts later claiming at least 27 lives in the northwestern town of Parachinar, officials said.A separate gun attack on police in the southern megacity of Karachi killed four officers on Friday evening, a security official said.Seven police officers were among those killed in the first attack, in Quetta, which happened when police stopped the car to search it at a checkpoint.Abdul Razzaq Cheema, director general of police in Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is capital, told Reuters the bomber had detonated a car packed with explosives. At least 13 bodies were taken to hospital, along with 19 wounded people, said Wasim Baig, a spokesman for the Civil Hospital in Quetta. Nine security officials were among t he wounded, said Fareed Sumalan, a doctor at the hospital.Jamaat ur Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a message sent to Reuters by its spokesman, Asad Mansur The post Separate blasts kill 40 in Pakistan: police
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