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By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 56 people and injured nearly 200, police and hospital officials said. Two armed men who arrived near the mosque on a motorcycle opened fire when they were stopped by police, before one of them forced his way into a crowded hall and detonated his suicide vest, according to a senior police official. The fate of the second attacker remains unclear and authorities were still determining whether he also entered the mosque bef…