Grenade attack on Pak mosque: Two killed
AFP, Islamabad
Two Islamic preachers were killed and four others wounded on Thursday in a hand grenade attack against a mosque in a Pakistani tribal district bordering Afghanist-an, officials said. Unknown attackers threw the grenade into a mosque in the Khabianga village of the Kurram agency tribal district, some 260km west of Islamabad, local administration official Basir Khan Wazir told AFP. Two members of the Tableeghi Jamaat (Preaching Party) died on the spot, while four people were seriously hurt and taken to hospital, he said. Authorities had detained some 15 Afghan refugee suspects in the area as part of their investigation into the attack. Pakistan, a key ally in the US "war on terror", has deployed about 70,000 troops along its border with southeastern Afghanistan to track down foreign militants in the region.
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