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Gunmen, bombers hit 4 sites in Pakistan; 37 die
The Pakistani cultural capital of Lahore came under assault this morning, as bands of militants and suicide bombers stormed three security installations in attacks that appeared to be coordinated. Around the same time, a suicide bomber blew up part of a police station in the Northwestern city of Kohat.
The death toll from the four attacks was 37, wire services said.
The attacks, coming less than a week after a deadly assault and hostage situation at the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, prompted questions about Pakistani security forces' ability to prevent an insurgency based in mountainous tribal areas from terrorizing the whole of the world's fifth most-populous nation.