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Bomb derails train in southwest Pakistan, kills 8

By adil-jawad
Published February 17, 2014 4:12am ET
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Bomb derails train in southwest Pakistan, kills 8
Pakistanis gather at the site of a deadly bomb blast that hit a train, in Kashmor district, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. A bomb placed by an ethnic separatist group derailed a train in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing several people including children, and wounding tens more police and the militants said. (AP Photo/Fida Hussain) | Fida Hussain

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb placed by an ethnic separatist group derailed a train in southwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing eight people, police and the militants said.

Three of the dead were children and another 20 people were wounded by the blast in Kashmor district, which caused several train cars to run off the track, said police official Mohammad Azeem.

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