Fifteen soldiers from a Pakistani army unit died in a bombing at their mess hall Thursday, a Pakistani intelligence source said.The Associated Press said two security officials reported the attack was the work of a suicide bomber.
More than 25 other soldiers were wounded in the bombing at the Terbella Ghazi military base, about 63 miles (100 km) northeast of Islamabad, the source said.
The commando unit hit Thursday by the bombing had taken part in ending the siege in July of Islamabad's Red Mosque -- a weeklong standoff between security forces and Islamic extremists who hoped to establish Taliban-style rule across the capital. More than 100 people, including militant leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi, died when troops stormed the Red Mosque.
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