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Gunmen opened fire near a Sunni mosque in the Pakistani city of Quetta in a deadly attack, just one day after a suicide bomber killed at least 37 people in the same city. The attack on Friday, which killed at least 10 people and left 24 wounded, came as most Pakistanis celebrated Eid. "Four gunmen opened fire when people were coming out of the mosque after saying Eid prayers," senior local police official Bashir Ahmad Brohi told AFP. Brohi said a former Pakistan Peoples Party provincial minister, Ali Madad Jatak, was also in the mosque and could have been the target. "But we are not sure at the moment and are investigating, " he said, adding that Jatak escaped unhurt although bullets hit his car. Only hours earlier Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered security increased across the country for the duration of Eid.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:22:11 +0000

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