PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A car packed with explosives blew up inside a refugee camp in northwestern Pakistan today as hundreds of people lined up to get food, killing 13 and wounding 25, officials said.
The attack on the Jalozai camp underlines the intensity of the conflict in Pakistan’s northwest, where refugees are sometimes caught in the middle of a battle between the government and militants.
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