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ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber killed 35 Pakistani soldiers at an Army training ground last night in a northwestern area known to be a stronghold of an Islamist militant group.
The blast, the most serious militant attack against the Pakistani military, took place in the town of Dargai, in North West Frontier Province.
Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Movement for the Implementation of Mohammad's Sharia Law) ran a school that security forces attacked in a nearby tribal area late last month, killing 80 people.
"It was a suicide attack. The bomber wrapped a chadar [cloak] around his body and came running into the training area and exploded himself where recruits had gathered for training," a military official said.
The group, which backs Afghanistan's Taleban, was banned by the Government in 2002.
- REUTERS
