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I received an email from our Egg host in Islamabad, Abdulsamad Khan,
noting that a protest movement similar to the Arab spring seems to be
taking shape in Pakistan. In this case the stimulating force was a
series of bomb attacks that has killed about 100 people. The largest was
in Quetta.
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 11 (Xinhua)-- At least 82 people were killed and 120
others injured in twin blasts that rocked Pakistan's southwest city of
Quetta on Thursday night, according to police and hospital sources. Earlier in the day
another explosion killed a dozen more people.
Mir Zubair, City Central Police Officer in Quetta, confirmed that 81
were killed and 121 got injured in the twin blasts.
Shortly after his announcement, there came a report saying another
person died of serious wounds at the hospital.
According to police and local media reports, the killed include nine
policemen, 25 rescue workers and two media persons.
Hospital sources said there were still dozens of injured people
remaining in critical condition and the death toll may further rise.
The twin blasts took place at about 8:50 local time when a first bomb
hit a snooker club located on the Alamdar Road in the city.
It was a suicide blast, said bomb disposal squad officers, adding that
an estimated six to seven kg of explosives were used in the blast.
As police, rescuers and media persons rushed to the blast site, another
bomb fixed in a vehicle parked nearby the site went off, causing a
massive casualty among the people gathering on the first blast site.
Bomb disposal officers believed that an estimated 100 kg of explosives
were used in the second bomb.
The GCP event was set for 6 hours beginning at 8pm local time (15:00 to
21:00 UTC). The result is 21716.604 on 21600 df, for p = 0.287 and Z =
0.563.
It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish
signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be
largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.
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