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Scores die in Pakistan bombing

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacks a volatile region on the Afghan border.

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Image: A boy injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region, is carried by hospital staff and rescue workers after being brought to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar

A boy injured in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan's Mohmand ethnic Pashtun tribal region, is carried by hospital staff and rescue workers after being brought to Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens in the attack outside the office of a senior government official in Pakistan's northwest, government and hospital officials said. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
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Image: Men search for survivors under the collapsed roof top of a building at the site of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region

Men search for survivors under the collapsed roof top of a building at the site of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed at least 56 people, including women and children, and wounded dozens in the attack in the volatile Pashtun region on the border with Afghanistan on Friday, officials said REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
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Image: A man consoles a boy at the site of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region

A man consoles a boy at the site of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed at least 56 people, including women and children, and wounded dozens in an attack in a volatile Pashtun region on the border with Afghanistan on Friday, officials said REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
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Pakistani paramedics treat injured blast victims at a hospital in Peshawar on July 9, 2010, following a suicide bomb attack in the district of Mohmand. A suicide bomber drove a motorbike into a crowd of Pakistanis in a busy market outside a local goverment office in the lawless northwest on July 9, killing 47 people and flattening rows of shops. The attacker struck in Yakaghund town in the district of Mohmand, one of seven that make up Pakistan's tribal belt that Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous place on Earth. AFP PHOTO/HASHAM AHMED (Photo credit should read HASHAM AHMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Pakistani local residents search for blast victims in the rubble following a suicide bomb attack in the district of Mohmand on July 9, 2010. A suicide attacker and suspected car bomb has caused carnage in a busy Pakistani market outside a goverment office, killing 55 people and burying victims under pulverised shops. The devastation struck Yakaghund town in the district of Mohmand, one of seven that make up Pakistan's northwest tribal belt that Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and the most dangerous place on Earth. AFP PHOTO/A. MAJEED (Photo credit should read A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Image: A man searches for a family member among the corpses retrieved from the aftermath of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region

A man searches for a family member among the corpses retrieved from the aftermath of a suicide bomb blast in Pakistan's northwestern Mohmand region July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed at least 56 people, including women and children, and wounded dozens in an attack in the volatile Pashtun region on the border with Afghanistan on Friday, officials said. REUTERS/K. Parvez (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
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