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26 on way to wedding killed in land mine blast in Pakistan+(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)ISLAMABAD, March 10_(Kyodo) _ Twenty-six people were killed and seven others injured when a vehicle carrying a wedding party hit a land mine in a tribal area of southwestern Pakistan on Friday, a local government official said. The incident occurred when the wedding party was heading from Bugti area in Baluchistan Province, about 800 kilometers southwest of Islamabad, to Rakhni in the Dera Ghazi Khan district in neighboring Punjab Province, said Raziq Bugti, spokesman of the Baluchistan provincial government. Most of the dead were women and children, the spokesman said, adding they were traveling on a trailer being pulled by a tractor. The Pakistani army has been engaged in operations in the area against rebels trying to sabotage the construction of large-scale projects and establishment of military facilities there. |