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KOHAT, Pakistan, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A bomb in a market in a town in northwest Pakistan killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, police said.
It was planted in a small passenger bus parked at a bus stand, said police official Mohammad Jehangir, citing initial reports. Television channels said the attack may have been carried out by a suicide bomber.
Pakistan's U.S.-backed government faces resilient Taliban insurgents who keep carrying out suicide bombings in defiance of a series of military offensives launched last year against their strongholds in the northwest.
The Pakistani Taliban, which is linked to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing on the office compound of a government official in the Mohmand region of the northwest on Monday that killed at least 40 people. (Reporting by Sami Paracha; Writing by Michael Georgy) (For more Reuters coverage of Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/places/pakistan) (If you have a query or comment about this story, send an e-mail to news.feedback.asia@thomsonreuters.com)
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