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Riots in Pakistan continue; at least 44 dead
- By Dido L. Arellano
- Published 12/29/2007
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Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that the unrest that broke out Thursday after Benazir Bhutto’s assassination damaged or destroyed hundreds of banks, stores, gas stations, railway cars and rail stations. Property damage was estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. At least 44 people have been killed with more than 50 injured. Much of the riots have been concentrated in or around Bhutto’s home town of Karachi. The fires that were set a day earlier continue to burn with streets filled with police and protesters on the second day of a three-day mourning period for the slain opposition leader.
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