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Tue 12 Dec 2009Bomb attack prompts angry protests by Shia mourners
AT LEAST 30 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi yesterday when a suicide bomber attacked a procession of Shia Muslims marking the holy day of Ashura.
The attacker was walking with tens of thousands of marchers, officials said. The blast, the latest in a string of attacks in recent weeks as the government pursues its offensive against the Taliban, prompted angry protests by Shia mourners.
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