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Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, meets with military personnel and blast victims in Peshawar, where an attack at a mosque in a police headquarters killed at least 47 worshippers and wounded a further 150, with a number of police officers among the dead. The government has put Pakistan on high alert as a frantic rescue operation continues at the blast site. IMAGES
In Cherbourg, Normandy, twenty years after the tragedy, dozens of people have come to pay their respects to the 11 employees and subcontractors of the ex-Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN, now Naval Group), who lost their lives in an attack in Karachi. 15 people died on May 8, 2002 in the explosion of the bus that was taking the employees of the DCN and its subcontractors from their hotel to the construction site of a submarine sold to Pakistan by DCN. IMAGES
Sri Lanka begins a day of national mourning with three minutes of silence to honour more than 300 people killed in suicide bomb blasts that have been blamed on a local Islamist group. IMAGES from outside St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said to Turkish officials that all those involved in last week's failed coup attempt "will be purged and suffer the consequences that they deserve", during a statement alongside Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, in Ankara, on Tuesday. His comments come as officials announced that over 15,000 education staff had been suspended, as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government continues to purge its ranks of opponents following Friday’s failed coup.
Families of children killed or wounded in the Peshawar school massacre say they're still waiting for government help and for justice. Paul Chapman reports.
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