Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:43PM GMT
People walk through a restaurant destroyed by a bomb in southwestern Pakistan on August 14, 2011.
Separate incidents of violence have killed at least 18 people and wounded several others in troubled southwestern Pakistan.
Fourteen people were killed and 16 others wounded when a bomb hit a hotel in a town in southwestern province of Balochistan.
The building was razed to ground following the explosion. Elsewhere in the province, gunmen on motorcycles shot dead a local journalist in the town of Khuzdar.
In a separate incident on Sunday, at least three paramilitary soldiers were killed when unknown militants fired a rocket into their camp.
The ambush came as the soldiers were preparing for 64th Independence Day assembly. Dozens more were also wounded.
Thousands of people have died in incidents of violence across the country since 2007.
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