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Pak polls: At least 25 killed in blast outside polling booth in Quetta
A Pakistan hospital official says an explosion outside a crowded polling station in the southwestern city of Quetta has killed 25 people and wounded 40
Islamabad: A Pakistan hospital official says an explosion outside a crowded polling station in the southwestern city of Quetta has killed 25 people and wounded 40.
Jaffer Kakar, a doctor, says five policemen and two children are among the dead. He fears the death toll could rise as many of the wounded are in critical condition.
Wednesday’s attack comes as Pakistanis vote in general elections for 270 members of the law-making National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, and 577 seats in four provincial assemblies.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Abdur Razzaq Cheema, the police chief in Quetta, Baluchistan’s provincial capital, says the explosion took place when near the city’s eastern bypass.
Baluchistan also saw the deadliest suicide bombing in the run-up to election day, with 149 people, including a provincial assembly candidate, killed at a campaign this month.
