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8 die following blast in Pakistan

Sunday, 6 July 2008

In Pakistan, at least eight people have been killed and 23 injured in a suicide bombing near Islamabad's Red Mosque

Several thousand people had gathered there to commemorate the first anniversary of an army raid on the building in which a-hundred people lost their lives

Seven police officers were among the dead in today's attack

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