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23 killed in Pakistan hospital bomb blast

hive soldiers, 13 militants die in clashes

AFP, Peshawar/ Khar
A suicide bomber blew himself up yesterday at a hospital in a northwestern Pakistani town that has been plagued by sectarian violence, killing at least 23 people, police said.
In other violence posing a fresh challenge to the government the day after the resignation of key US ally President Pervez Musharraf, five soldiers and 13 Taliban militants were killed in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
The suicide attack happened as Shia Muslims gathered to protest over the death of a man in a suspected sectarian attack in the troubled town of Dera Ismail Khan, said North West Frontier Province police chief Malik Naveed Khan.
"There are 23 confirmed dead and up to 20 wounded. Wc have found the legs of the suspected suicide bomber," Khan told private Geo television, adding that tensions were high in the area after the blast
Provincial police spokesman Riaz Ahmed said the dead included civilians and policemen who went to the hospital to provide security for the protest.
"A Shia salesman was fatally wounded in an attack at a grocery store and was brought to the city's district hospital, when there was a blast in the emergency ward," Ahmed told AFP.
Another police official speaking on condition of anonymity said the incident could be linked to sectarian violence.
Meanwhile fighting erupted
Tuesday in Nawagai, 25km west of Khar, the main town in the Bajaur tribal district on the Afghan border, an official said.
"Around 13 militants are confirmed dead in the clashes which continued for several hours," local administration official Mohammad Jameel told AFP, adding that five soldiers lost their lives defending the checkpost.
Army helicopter gunships later pounded the area, targeting militant hideouts, he said.
The official said that helicopters had destroyed the house of the main spokesman for Pakistan's Taliban movement, Maulvi Omar, but the compound was empty and no one was killed.
Pakistani forces moved into Bajaur, a known hub of al-Qaeda and
Taliban militants, nearly two weeks ago.The governmen t says at least 460 militants have been killed since then.
Meanwhile, suspected separatist insurgents snot dead five Pakistani government officials nearly two weeks after they were abducted in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said yesterday.
Gas-rich Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has seen a four-year insurgency by tribal rebels fighting for political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
"The officials were all shot dead. Their bodies were found dumped in a mountainous area" in the town of Chatthar in Baluchistan, local police officer Qasim Seelachi said.