Toll climbs to 27 in attack on Pakistani funeral

Fri, Feb 29 11:08 PM

A suicide bomber killed at least 27 people at a funeral on Friday for a Pakistani policeman who had been killed earlier in the day, according to doctors and police in northwest Pakistan.

At least 27 bodies were received at the main hospital for the Swat region in Saidu Sharif, Dr. Yasir told Reuters.

Deputy Superintendent Karamat Shah believed the toll could be higher as several people took the bodies of their relatives home to prepare them for burial.

Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said at least 50 people were wounded in the attack in Swat, a mountainous region where Pakistani security forces have been battling Islamist militants for months. The policeman being buried was one of three killed in by a roadside bomb in another part of the troubled northwest.

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