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A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle laden with explosives during a meeting of elders in Pakistan's tribal territories on Friday, killing more than 40 people and wounding more than 100, according to a government official, television accounts and witnesses. Elders in the Orakzai tribal area, vowing to push Taliban extremists out of their area, were planning the details of how to wipe out a Taliban headquarters, said Kamran Zeb, the government's senior official in Orakzai. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]