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Global News Podcast

Suicide bombers attack mosques in different parts of Pakistan

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Explosion in Balochistan kills more than fifty people celebrating a religious holiday. Later, further north in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, there was a blast at a mosque inside a police compound. They're the worst attacks since July, when Islamic State militants in Pakistan killed more than forty people. Also: Sweden's prime minister uses a televised national address to say he's considering deploying military patrols on the streets to deal with heightened gun violence, and scientists in Spain say a pair of shoes discovered in a cave are six-thousand years old.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.1

I'm Robin Brant and at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 29th of September.

0:09.8

These are our main stories.

0:11.5

Two large explosions in different parts of Pakistan have caused multiple casualties.

0:16.6

The UN says there's been a 60% increase in the number of unaccompanied child migrants

0:21.8

making the dangerous sea crossing to Europe.

0:24.5

And the leader of Spain's Conservative People's Party has failed to form a government again.

0:31.0

Also, in this podcast, aid officials have warned that the entire population of Nagorno-Karabakh

0:36.6

might leave after Azerbaijan seized control.

0:40.2

Shachis.

0:41.4

Very bad.

0:42.4

It feels terribly bad.

0:44.8

It should have been done differently. Could you have got more help?

0:49.2

What else could we do?

0:52.6

And scientists in Spain say a pair of shoes discovered in a cave are 6,000 years old.

1:00.0

We begin in Pakistan, though, where there have been two deadly explosions in separate areas

1:12.8

on the day people gathered for prayers and to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.

1:17.8

At least 50 people were killed, including a senior police officer in Baluchistan in the

1:23.3

southwest of the country in what is believed to be a suicide attack.

1:27.4

Later, a blast at a mosque in a northern province of the country calls the collapse of parts

1:32.3

of the building, killing at least four people.

1:35.1

Dozens are still reported to be trapped.

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