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Suicide bomber kills five in Pakistan's Peshawar

REUTERS/ Fayaz Aziz

12:1807/12/2009

At least five people were killed and around 30 were injured on Monday in a suicide bombing outside a court in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, the country's Geo TV reported.

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