After blast, Pakistan Taliban threatens more attacks

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By NBC News staff and ReutersUpdated at 4:40 p.m. ET: ISLAMABAD — After a roadside bomb killed at least seven people near a Shiite procession in Pakistan on Saturday, the Pakistan Taliban warned that more attacks were coming.

The Pakistan Taliban called the Agence France-Presse from an undisclosed location to claim responsibility for the attacks.  Ehsanullah Ehsan told the AFP that the Taliban had dispatched more than  20 suicide bombers to target Shiite Muslims, the religious minority.

Four boys were among the dead; another 30 were wounded.

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