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March 27
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76 persons, including 16 Security
Force personnel, were killed and over 100 injured in a suicide
attack on a mosque at Peshawar-Torkham Highway in the Jamrud sub-division
of Khyber Agency during the Friday congregation. The huge explosion
reduced the single-storey roadside mosque to rubble. Witnesses
said they heard a huge explosion just as the Imam (prayer
leader) concluded his Friday sermon and the people stood up for
the Friday prayer. The dead included the prayer leader, his brother,
four personnel of the Frontier Corps and 12 Khassadars (tribal
police). The others were tribesmen belonging to the nearby villages,
Pakistani and Afghan civilians traveling between Peshawar and
Torkham, and drivers and conductors of trucks carrying goods to
neighbouring Afghanistan.
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