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Bomb at Pakistani mosque kills 45


    LANDI KOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb destroyed a mosque in northwest Pakistan during prayers on Friday, killing at least 45 people, a government official said.

    "Forty-five to 46 bodies have been retrieved ... up to 70 people could have been killed," the top administrator in the Khyber region, Tariq Hayat Khan, told Geo TV.

    (Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider; Writing by Robert Birsel, Editing by Dean Yates)