March 9, 2011 8:37 PM

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37 killed in blast at funeral in Pakistan

In Pakistan, at least 37 mourners were killed and over 60 others injured today when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by members of an anti-Taliban militia in the troubled northwest.The bomber targeted the funeral prayers of the wife of Hakeem Khan, a leader of the “peace committee” or anti-Taliban militia of Adezai, a tribal area near Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.The attacker, a youth who was on foot, joined a crowd of mourners at Mattani, 35 kilometers south of Peshawar, and detonated his explosive vest.Over 200 tribesmen were attending the funeral.Bomb disposal experts from the army later carried out the controlled detonation of a bomb that was found at the site of the attack.The Darra Adam Khel chapter of the bannedTehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was carried out to avenge the killing of militants in a military operation in Adezai area.

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