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| Car bomb kills 15 at Pakistan refugee camp |
| 2013-03-21 |
| A CAR bomb tore through a Pakistani refugee camp, killing 15 people including women and children and heightening security fears before a May general election. More than 40 other people were wounded when the bomb exploded at Jalozai, the country's largest refugee camp, as scores of people queued for rations on Thursday. Jalozai is home to tens of thousands of people displaced from the tribal belt, a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants, on the Afghan border and is close to the main northwestern city of Peshawar. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But officials linked the attack to fighting in Khyber district, where the military has stepped up an offensive against Taliban and local militia, and from where most camp residents have fled. "The bomb exploded in a car parked near the administration office where refugees had lined up to get rations and new arrivals were being registered," said camp police official Fuad Khan. District police chief Mohammad Hussain said the bomb was detonated by a timer and carried up to 35 kilograms of explosives and mortar bombs. An AFP reporter saw scenes of devastation, with pieces of flesh and blood splattering the area. |
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