Death toll in blast at a funeral in Pakistan reaches 30

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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, February 21, SPA -- A suicide bomber blewhimself up at a funeral for a slain Muslim leader Friday innorthwest Pakistan, killing 30 people and wounding morethan 60, police and witnesses said. Three other people werekilled in sectarian rioting sparked by the attack, Associated Press reported. No one claimed responsibility. Witnesses said the suicide bomber barged into a 1,000-strong crowd streaming toward a graveyard in DeraIsmail Khan and then detonated his explosives. The crowdwas mourning Sher Zeman, a sect leader who was gunneddown in the city the day before.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/637427

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