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Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:07 PM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale was detected in Mindoro, southwest of Manila in the Philippines, at 10.29 am today, the Malaysian Meteorological Department reported.

It said in a statement the epicentre of the quake was 123km southwest of
Manila and 854km northeast of Kudat in Sabah.

The earthquake did not pose a tsunami threat, it added. -- BERNAMA

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Taliban claims responsibility of Peshawar bolb attacks

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:00 PM PDT

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for Thursday's bomb attacks in Peshawar, Xinhua news agency quoted local Urdu TV channel Ary as saying on Friday.

Two bomb attacks including one suicide bombing hit Peshawar, capital of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, leaving eight people dead and
37 others injured, many of them policemen.

At about 7:00 a.m. local time Thursday, a roadside bomb planted under a
pile of fruits along the street in the Lahori Gate area of Peshawar hit a police

van carrying an estimated 20 police officers to duty places.

Six people including five policemen on the bus and one child were killed

on the spot while 17 other police officers on board were injured.

A few hours later, two female suicide bombers attacked a checkpost
temporarily set up near the first blast site. They first threw a hand grenade,
causing a stampede, before they committed suicide attack.

One suicide bomber, aged between 16 to 17, first blew herself up. The
other, aged at about 45, failed to detonate her suicide jacket and got wounded
in the explosion and later died of the wounds.

The suicide attack killed at least two people and injured over 20 others
including two policemen, said local reports.

Following the two blasts, police also foiled a third bomb attack attempt
at the Matni area of Peshawar by killing a 14-year- old male suicide bomber
together with a driver who was sending him to carry out the suicide attack.

Local reports quoted police sources as saying that Thursday's serial bomb
attacks in Peshawar could be a retaliation for a large-scale search operation
launched by the police Wednesday night at the outskirts of the city, during
which one Taliban leader was arrested. -- BERNAMA

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