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Bomb kills 33 at Pakistani market

By KHALID TANVEER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.

Khalid Tanveer
Credit: AP
 Devastation caused by Tuedsay's bombing in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan

A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in a market close to a politician’s home in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 33 people and showing the increasing reach of Taliban militants in the nuclear-armed nation.

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