Blast near mosque kills 10 in Pakistan's northwest

PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed 10 people and injured 18 in Pakistan on Friday, government officials said, in an area that the government said it had cleared of Taliban fighters. "Most of the dead and injured were returning from Friday prayers at a mosque," said Mehmood Aslam, the top government official in the area. The blast took place near a shop in Kalaya, the capital of the semi-autonomous Orakzai region in the ethnic Pashtun belt that runs through northwestern mountains along the Afghan border. No group claimed responsibility.

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