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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- A bomb blast tore through the emergency area of a hospital Tuesday in northwest Pakistan, killing several people, police said.
The suspected suicide bomb attack at the District Headquarter Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan in the North-West Frontier Province, a hotbed of Taliban insurgency, killed at least 16 people, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
CNN put the death toll at 23. Some 15 to 23 people were injured.
Police told the Pakistani news agency among those injured were four policemen including a senior official.
The CNN report, quoting police Inspector General Malik Naveed, said a crowd had gathered outside the hospital to protest the shooting death of a Shiite Muslim leader when the bomb went off.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
The Pakistani military has been conducting major operations for several months to contain the extremist violence in the province near the border with Afghanistan.
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