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                         63 Killed in Pakistan Bombing

   Pakistani police say 63 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded in a
   bombing targeting Shi`ites in southwestern Pakistan.
   A senior police officer says the bomb was detonated Saturday by remote
   control in a Shi`ite-dominated area of the city of Quetta. He says most
   of the victims were Shi`ite, and that women and children were among
   those killed.
   A spokesman for the banned Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed
   responsibility for the blast.
   Saturday`s attack was the worst in Quetta since a series of bombings on
   January 10 in a Shi`ite-dominated area of the city killed 92 people.
   Lashkar-e-Jhangvi also claimed responsibility for those attacks.
   Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, where the Shi`ite
   minority has been attacked several times in recent months in sectarian
   violence.
   Islamic militants and the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters are active in the
   province. Baluch nationalist groups are fighting an insurgency there to
   try to gain a greater share of income from the province`s gas and
   mineral resources.
   Sectarian violence claimed more than 400 lives in Pakistan last year.
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