NWFP (Pakistan): Suspected suicide bombing in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province killed about 31 people and wounded 50 others on Thursday.
An explosion and gun fire hit a Shia procession observing Moharram in the town of Hangu, close to the Afghan border.
The Shias are a minority in Sunni-dominated Pakistan.
Angry mourners burnt shops and cars, and army has been deployed to control the situation.
Provincial police chief Riffat Pasha said 23 people died in the initial attack and in armed clashes between Shiites and rival Sunnis in the town of Hangu.
Another four people died when gunmen fired on a minibus in Saidan Banda near Hangu and four truck drivers were shot dead after a mob torched their vehicles in the nearby Ibrahimzai area, a senior security official said.
According to a senior Peshawar-based journalist, Rahimullah Yusufzai there is still firing going on in parts of the town and in the nearby villages.
He says that there is a stretch of Shia land in the middle of a Suni dominated area.
All the traffic from the town where the blast happened is closed and the injured had to be taken to Peshsawar in a helicopter.
The casualty figure is still not certain but hospital sources have told Rahimullah Yusufzai that over 40 people have been injured.
The death toll is likely to rise beacuse the bodies were taken by the villagers for burial.
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