PESHAWAR, Pakistan, September 19, SPA -- A bombing at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan killed a Muslim official just hours after a suicide attack in a nearby village left 40 dead, police saidSaturday. It was not immediately clear if the two were linked, butthe mosque bomb Friday was the third blast in the area intwo days. The bomb went off at the mosque in Och village near Hangutown before midnight, killing district Mayor Haji KhanAfzal and wounding three other people, police official GulJamal said. Afzal was apparently praying at the mosque when the blast_ 18 pounds (eight kilograms) of explosives detonated byremote control _ brought its roof crashing down on him,Jamal was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/701397