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American consulate staff hurt in blast

Two Americans working for the US consulate were wounded in a bomb attack on their vehicle in the Pakistani city of Peshawar yesterday, the American embassy said.

The blast also wounded two Pakistani employees of the consulate, the embassy in Islamabad said in a statement.

Earlier, regional information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters at least four people, including two Americans, were killed in an attack by a suicide bomber in a vehicle.

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