Pakistan boosts security after suicide attack

Hundreds of police secured a religious procession through Peshawar in north-west Pakistan today, after a suicide bomber killed 15 people near a similar Shiite Muslim gathering and heightened fears of sectarian violence.

Police and paramilitary troops set up road blocks and frisked everyone approaching the Imambargah Hussainia mosque, where the procession of some 2,000 people began. Sharpshooters watched from the roofs of nearby buildings.