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Summary At least eleven people were wounded when a small bomb exploded in Rampura bazar on Thursday.
According to police, sources the bomb exploded outside a grocery shop in a busy market on Thursday.The bomb was packed in an oil canister and placed outside the shop in the citys popular Rampura Market, local police officer Javed Khan said.The blast left elven people wounded one of them seriously, he said, adding that it also damaged two shops and one vehicle parked nearby. The wounded were labourers or passersby, the policeman said.Police cordoned off the area while the rescue teams shifted the injured to Lady Reading Hospital.Since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007, nearly 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks based in the northwest tribal belt.
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