PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed in a blast during a meeting of a local peace committee in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region on Monday, police said.
The explosion caused a portion of the building where the meeting was taking place to collapse, police officer Usman Wazir said, adding that it was not clear who was behind the attack.
(Reporting by Mushtaq Ali and Saud Mehsud, writing by Sakshi Dayal; Editing by YP Rajesh)
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