DATE=3/28/2000 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT TITLE=PAK BOMB / S NUMBER=2-260670 BYLINE=AYAZ GUL DATELINE=ISLAMABAD CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: At least seven people have died and 16 others have been injured in a powerful bomb explosion at Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. From Islamabad, Ayaz Gul has the details. TEXT: Pakistani officials say the bomb went off in a small shop at the Torkham border crossing, in the northwest of the country. Six of the dead were reported to be child workers. Those wounded in the attack have been taken to hospitals in Peshawar, about 50 kilometers away. Torkham, in the Khyber Pass, is the main border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Local authorities are said to have closed the border gate after the blast, stopping people from crossing into Afghanistan. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing. The crossing is used by Afghan refugees returning home under a United Nations repatriation program. Pakistan has been home to nearly three million Afghan refugees who fled during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's. More than one million still await repatriation. (SIGNED) NEB/AG/WD 28-Mar-2000 05:05 AM EDT (28-Mar-2000 1005 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .
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