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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early today at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.
The blast went off as worshipers held prayers for the Eid holy day at the mosque in Aftab Khan Sherpao’s residential compound in Sherpao, a village about 25 miles northeast of the city of Peshawar.
Sherpao was safe, according to Kamal Shah, a top Interior Ministry official in Islamabad. The blast was the second suicide attack in eight months that apparently targeted Sherpao, who is running for parliament next month.
