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March 20, 2005
29 Killed in Pakistan Bombing
Investigators on Sunday were examining a mutilated corpse from a bombing at a Shiite Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan that killed at least 29 people to determine if it was a homicide attack, police said.

The bomb went off at 10:20 p.m. on Saturday as thousands of worshippers were taking supper at the shrine in Fatehpur village, 210 miles south of Quetta, during an annual commemoration of a revered Shiite saint entombed there.

At least 16 others were wounded, some critically, in the blast that left a scene of carnage and added to security woes in restive Baluchistan province, where fighting last week between government forces and renegade tribesemen claimed at least 30 lives.

Police said 29 people had died in the bombing, but the shrine's caretaker, Syed Sadiq Shah, claimed that at least 44 people had lost their lives and 25 others were injured.

The motive for the attack was unclear.

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