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Blast heard in Pakistani city of Peshawar - police

Reuters October 23, 2009, 6:16 pm
A police commando stands guard at the entrance of the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, where a suicide bomb blast killed at least six, about 75 km (45 miles) northwest of the capital Islamabad October 23, 2009. A suspected Taliban suicide bomber killed six people outside Pakistan s main airforce maintenance facility on Friday as troops pressed ahead with an offensive against insurgents in the northwest, officials said. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast was heard in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday and police said they were investigating.

"There was a blast just now. We heard it was in some restaurant. We don't have any details," Fida Mohammad, an official at a police station in the Hayatabad neighbourhood where the blast took place, told Reuters.

(Reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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