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Pakistan market blast 'kills 17'

A car bomb killed 17 people including women and children and wounded dozens more when it exploded near a bus queue at a market in northwest Pakistan Monday, officials said.

Pakistani security officials examine the wreckage of a destroyed vehicle at the site of a car bomb attack in Jamrud is in Khyber district on December 17, 2012. A car bomb has killed 17 people including women and children and wounded dozens more when it exploded near a bus queue at a market in northwest Pakistan.

The bomb went off in the town of Jamrud, killing or wounding people waiting for buses to take them across the northwest and to other parts of the country, according to officials.

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