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At least 22 dead in Pakistan bombs

Associated Press
 
February 5, 2010
 
KARACHI, Pakistan -- Police say at least 22 people have been killed by two bombs in Pakistan's largest city.
 
One bomb went off outside a hospital where victims of an earlier blast were taken, killing 10 and wounding several others in the southern city of Karachi.
 
The first blast targeted the city's minority Shiite Muslim community, hitting a bus carrying worshippers, most of them women and children.
 
At least 12 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
 
Police say the hospital bomb was near an ambulance.
 

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