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Blast in Pakistan's Rawalpindi


    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A blast went off in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, on Monday but the cause was not immediately clear, a security official said.

    Residents of both cities heard an explosion.

    "We heard the blast but we're still trying to locate whereit came from," said police official Raza Hussain Shah.

    A military official said the blast had not happened at anyof the main military installations in the city, which is theheadquarters of the Pakistani army.

    (Editing by Robert Birsel and Sanjeev Miglani)