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Last update - 01:01 03/10/2004

Rioting as Pakistani blast victims buried

By Reuters

SIALKOT, Pakistan - Angry Shi'ite Muslims set vehicles and the mayor's office on fire in Pakistan's eastern city of Sialkot yesterday after a funeral procession to bury victims of a suicide bomb attack that killed 30 people.

Security was beefed up throughout Pakistan after the bomber detonated the device when hundreds of worshipers from the minority sect were in the Zainabya mosque for Friday prayers.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which more than 50 people were wounded, but suspicion is expected to fall on Sunni Muslim groups.

At the end of the funeral, some 100 angry men went on the rampage, burning the mayor's office, setting fire to parked vehicles and stoning bank buildings and damaging offices in the courthouse.

President Pervez Musharraf said the attack "shows that terrorists have no religion and are enemies of the mankind."

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