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A suicide bomb has killed four people and injured 56 in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday.
The blast in the northwestern Khyber Agency tribal area was set off after the bomber failed to enter a government office in Jamrud town, said Khyber Agency's administrative head Shahab Ali Shah.
Shah told reporters the dead included a paramilitary soldier who had tried to overpower the suicide bomber.
The number of injured, who were rushed to hospital in nearby Peshawar city, has made officials fear a surge in the number of deaths.
Khyber Agency, one of Pakistan's seven semi-autonomous tribal regions, has been the focus of a full-scale offensive to flush out the pro-Taliban Lashkar-e-Islam militant group since last October; an extension of another anti-Taliban operation in nearby North Waziristan.
Over 350 suspected militants and more than 50 troops have been killed in the ongoing operation, which has shifted focus to the far-flung Tirah valley. - Lahor
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