8 slain in blast in garrison city
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From Times Wire Reports
A suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a minibus carrying Pakistani security personnel today in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing at least eight people, police said.
The bus was destroyed and several other people were wounded in the blast near the offices of the army’s National Logistics Cell, said Bisharat Abbasi, the local police chief.
In recent months there have been a series of suicide bombings in Rawalpindi. On Dec. 27, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and about 20 others were killed there.
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