Separate blasts kill nearly 30 in Pakistan – police | Reuters
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By Gul Yusufzai and Javed Hussain | QUETTA/PARACHINAR, Pakistan QUETTA/PARACHINAR, Pakistan Bombs killed nearly 30 people in Pakistan on Friday, with a suicide car bomber killing at least 13 in the southwestern city of Quetta, and two blasts later killing at least 15 in the northwest town of Parachinar, officials said.Seven police officers were 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 the 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 nearly 30 in Pakistan – police
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