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Pakistan suicide bomb kills 55

Published:Thursday | August 21, 2008 | 1:39 PM

At least 55 people have been killed in two suicide bombings outside a munitions factory in the Pakistani town of Wah.



The attack is considered the deadliest on a military site in Pakistan\'s history.



The police said the bombs hit the city, 18 miles north of Islamabad, as workers left.



Many other people were injured.



A spokesman for the Pakistani Taleban said his colleagues carried out the attacks, in response to army violence in the country\'s north-west.



Maulvi Umar of the Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan said the bombings in Wah were in retaliation for the deaths of innocent women and children in the tribal area of Bajaur.



The Taleban has reportedly issued a threat that more attacks would take place in Pakistan\'s major urban areas unless the army withdraws from the tribal areas.