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Militants flee Pakistan after cross-border attack

Dozens of militants who came from Afghanistan to attack a village in Pakistan's northwest and took scores of hostages fled back across the border, leaving behind the captives and carrying the bodies of 15 fighters killed in a battle with the army, Pakistani officials said Friday.

 

Elsewhere in the country, a bomb exploded near a political rally in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least five people, officials said. (AP)

 


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