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Suspected U.S. missile strikes kill 10 in Pakistan

May. 16, 2009
Ten people were killed early Saturday when suspected U.S. missile strikes hit a religious school in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, a Pakistani intelligence official said.
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