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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Michael Howie

Pakistan: Bomb attacks at election offices kill at least 24 day before national vote

Two bombings at the election offices of a political party and an independent candidate in south-west Pakistan have killed at least 24 people and wounded more than two dozen others just days before parliamentary elections are due to be held.

The first attack happened on Wednesday in Pashin, a district in Baluchistan province, said Jan Achakzai, the spokesman for the provincial government.

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