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)
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Source: Voice of America
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