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Wed 07 Jul 2007Rocket attack kills eight in PakistanIslamist militants fired rockets into a northwestern Pakistani town today , killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 40, police said, as violence mounts along the Afghanistan frontier.City police chief Daar Ali Khattak said four rockets hit Bannu, gateway to the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan, which has been a hotbed of support for al-Qaeda-linked militants.