Pakistan says 102 people were killed and 115 were injured by the huge suicide bomb that ripped through a large crowd—one that contained many disabled people waiting for wheelchairs from the government—in Mohmand, in the northwestern tribal area of the country Friday. A barrier wall of a prison crumbled, allowing four insurgents and 21 other prisoners to escape, and storefronts collapsed in the blast. Four policemen were killed by the motorcycle bomb, which was followed immediately by a second explosion. The suicide bomb was another sign of the staying power of insurgents along Pakistan’s rugged border with Afghanistan.
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