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Bombs kill 92 in Quetta in Pakistan
Jan 11, 2013
A bomb has killed 11 people in a Pakistan security forces' vehicle and wounded dozens more in a crowded part of the southwestern city of Quetta. The same day at least 81 people were killed and 121 wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a crowded club in the same city, a senior police officer said.
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