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Bomb targeting mosque worshippers kills 8 people in northwest Pakistan

PARACHINAR, Pakistan - Pakistani officials say a bomb that went off close to a mosque in the country's northwest has killed eight people.

Friday's blast took place in the town of Parachinar close to the Afghan border.

Dr Habibullah Khan says his hospital has received eight bodies and was treating close to 50 wounded in the explosion.

Many thousands of Pakistanis have died in bombings over the last five years, most of them carried out by Sunni Islamist militants.

The militants routinely kill civilians opposed to them or those belonging to different Islamic denominations.

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