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Bomb attacks kill 24 in Pakistan

At least 24 people were killed in two separate bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan.

The attacks came after the reported death of al-Qaeda operative Ilyas Kashmiri in a US drone missile strike in the ethnic Pashtun tribal region of South Waziristan on the Afghan border.

Militants vowed to take revenge of the killing.

A bomb exploded at a bakery in the cantonment area of Nowshera city, killing 18 people, police said.

Hours earlier, another bomb blast at a bus stop on the outskirts of Peshawar, capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killed six people and wounded, police said.

Pakistan's Taliban militants, who have close ties to al-Qaeda, have carried out a series of attacks to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces in a Pakistani town on 2 May.

They have attacked paramilitary cadets, a US consulate convoy, a naval base and other targets.