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A blast at a crowded market in a town in Pakistan's northwest province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has killed at least eight people on Friday and wounded 20 others, a local government official said.
"Eight people have been killed and over 20 are injured. We are checking on further details," local government official Mutahir Zeb told Reuters.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast in Kalaya town, about 60km southwest of the provincial capital Peshawar, police officials told Al Jazeera.
The area is a remote part of the Orakzai tribal district, which was recently merged with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, after being governed directly by Islamabad for decades.
The blast occurred around the same time as three attackers attempted to storm the Chinese consulate in the southern port city of Karachi in an unrelated incident in which two police officials were killed.
The Karachi attack was claimed by the Baloch Liberation Army separatist group.

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