Pakistan police suspect Islamic State in bomb blast that killed at least 44
by Haroon Janjua in Islamabad from World news | The Guardian on (#6DD6M)
Nearly 200 injured at gathering of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party ahead of elections expected later this year
At least 44 people have been killed and almost 200 injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that targeted a political party gathering.
Police said the explosion at a rally on Sunday afternoon for the conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (JUI-F), a government coalition partner, was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives vest close to the stage where several senior leaders of the party were sitting.
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