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FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Jan 9
09 Jan 2009 16:31:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 1630 GMT on Friday.

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*LAHORE - Four small explosions went off outside a theatre in the centre of the eastern city of Lahore wounding five people, witnesses and rescue workers said.

QUETTA - Four people were killed and 10 wounded when a land mine blew up their van in Dera Bugti district of the southwestern province of Baluchistan, where separatist militants have been fighting a low-level insurgency for years, intelligence officials said. A man claiming to be a spokesman for a separatist faction telephoned reporters to say his group was responsible. (Compiled by Islamabad bureau; Editing by Robert Birsel)
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