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Bomb rips Pakistani bus, killing 12

QUETTA, Pakistan --A bomb ripped through a passenger bus Sunday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and wounding at least 13, officials said.

The explosion was in the back of the bus in Kolpur, about 20 miles southeast of Quetta, the capital of southwestern Baluchistan province, local government administrator Abdur Rahman said. The bus was taking about 50 passengers from Quetta to the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.

Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told state-run Pakistan Television that, according to initial reports, 12 people were killed and 13 injured.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/02/05/bomb_rips_pakistani_bus_killing_eight/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News

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1. ABC News/Reuters: Bus bomb kills at least 13 in Pakistan

Edited on Sun Feb-05-06 12:15 PM by PhilipShore

ABC News/Reuters
Bus bomb kills at least 13 in Pakistan
Feb 5, 2006

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1582307

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on a bus in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, the latest incident in worsening separatist violence in troubled Baluchistan province, officials said.

The blast in a pass at Kolpur, about 60 km (38 miles) south of Baluchistan's capital Quetta, came hours after eight people were killed when suspected tribal militants fired rockets into a town in the province near the country's main gas field.

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