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At least 17 people were killed and 50 injured when a pickup truck carrying pilgrims to a shrine in Pakistan on the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr fell into a ravine, officials said on Thursday. The accident occurred around midnight on Wednesday in the town of Hub in the south-western province of Balochistan, local police official Mohamed Imran told dpa. At least 17 bodies were brought to a morgue that is run by a private charity in the southern city of Karachi, its spokesman Mohamed Bilal said. More than 50 people were being treated at hospitals in the city, said Murad Ali Shad, chief minister…

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