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Pakistan blast kills 7

From Nosheen Abbas, For CNN
Pakistani soldiers patrol outside a tunnel following twin bombings in Kohat on Saturday that killed at least seven people.
Pakistani soldiers patrol outside a tunnel following twin bombings in Kohat on Saturday that killed at least seven people.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • The blast took place in a thoroughfare to cities such as Karachi
  • A police officer says a bomb was planted in a car
RELATED TOPICS
  • Pakistan

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- At least seven people died and 15 were wounded when a car bomb exploded in a tunnel in northwest Pakistan, police said Saturday.

The blast occurred late Friday, said Kazi Hamid, a Kohat city police officer.

It was in the Kohat Tunnel, a thoroughfare to metropolitan cities such as Karachi.

Kohat is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan.

From journalist Nosheen Abbas