Suicide bombers kill about 70 in Pakistan

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Suicide bombers kill about 70 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, (UPI) -- Twin suicide bombers killed about 70 people and injured more than 100 Friday outside a government office in a tribal area of Pakistan, officials said.

Many of the victims were internally displaced people waiting in line for wheelchairs and other necessities, The Nation newspaper reported.

The bombings occurred at the office of the assistant political agent in the Yakka Ghund area of Mohmand Agency. One bomber riding a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew himself up at the gate after security guards kept him out of the compound.

The explosions blew out the fronts of shops in the neighborhood.

At least six of the dead were children and three were members of security forces, The Nation said. The wounded were transferred to a hospital in Peshawar.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper said the area in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan is an ethnic Pashtun region, where Pakistani security forces have been fighting Taliban militants.

On July 1, a suicide attack at the sacred Data Darbar Sufi shrine in southeast Lahore killed more than 40 people. In late May, attacks on two mosques also in Lahore belonging to the minority Ahmadis killed 93 people and a suicide attack in April at a market in Peshawar killed about two dozen people.
 
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