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15 September 2011 Last updated at 11:28 GMT
A bomb attack at the funeral of a tribal elder has killed at least 10 people in a volatile region of north-west Pakistan, police say. The blast took place in a village close to the Afghan border in Lower Dir, an area which has witnessed considerable militant activity in the past.
No group has said they carried out the attack.
It comes just days after gunmen ambushed a school bus near the north-western city of Peshawar, killing six.
Lower Dir borders the Swat valley where the Pakistani army in 2009 launched a massive operation to crack down on the Taliban.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says many militants are reported to have set up bases in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, just across the border from Dir, after the 2009 crackdown.
Samarbagh, the district where this attack took place, was an area where locals have raised tribal volunteer militias, known as peace committees, to defend themselves against Taliban attacks.
Over the past year militants have launched a number of attacks there, our correspondent says.
Funerals of tribal leaders in the north-west have been targeted by militants before.
In February 2009 at least 25 people died in a bomb attack at the funeral of a Shia Muslim cleric who had been gunned down just days earlier in the restive district of Dera Ismail Khan.
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