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India-Pakistan
Bomb Kills Seven People in Pakistan
2014-06-04
[AnNahar] At least seven people were killed and three maimed when their vehicle hit a roadside kaboom in northwest Pakistain on Tuesday in a suspected sectarian attack, officials said.

The incident took place when a Datsun pick-up truck hit an IED near Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal agency which lies along the Afghan border and is a hotbed of both Taliban-linked and Sunni-Shiite violence.

"It was a roadside IED, four people was struck down in his prime while three others died in the hospital," Maqsood Hassan, a local government official told Agence La Belle France Presse.

An intelligence official confirmed the incident, adding that the vehicle was carrying people from a Sunni Moslem dominated area while the bomb was went kaboom! in a Shiite area.

"Apparently it was a sectarian attack," he said.

His account was also confirmed by a resident.

Kurram is frequently the scene of sectarian violence between Pakistain's Sunni Moslem majority and Shiite minority.
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