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Death toll from Pakistan mosque suicide bombing rises to at least 88. Mourners buried some of the victims Tuesday of a suicide bombing at a mosque officials say has killed at least 88 people in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. Mohammad Asim, a government hospital spokesman, said more bodies were retrieved from the rubble of the mosque overnight and early on Tuesday, and several of those critically injured died in hospital. The bombing also wounded more than 150 people. It was not clear how the bomber was able to slip into the walled compound in a high-security zone with other government buildings and reach the mosque. Source 8b.

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