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| | GEO Pakistan | | 5 security men among 7 killed in Machni blast | Updated at: 1715 PST, Wednesday, November 12, 2008
 PESHAWAR: At least seven persons including five security personnel were killed another 10 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a government high school in Machni – an area lying in the outskirts of Charsadda and Mohmand Agency.
Meanwhile, unannounced curfew was has been clamped in the area soon after the blast.
Sources said, the suicide attacker reached outside the gate of the school in a white flying coach where contingents of security forces were deployed. He blew himself up there, causing a loud blast.
The coach was completely destroyed while seven persons were killed including five security men and a rickshaw driver. Ten more persons who sustained injuries were shifted to Peshawar from Machni.
The blast was so powerful that it damaged the school building besides shattering the windowpanes of the adjacent buildings.
Soon after the blast the curfew was imposed in Shabqadr after which markets and trade centers were shut down. |  |
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