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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Up to 22 people were killed in a bomb blast at a polling station in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, during a by-election for a provincial assembly seat, police said.
"Twenty to 22 people have been killed. It appears that an explosive-laden car was parked outside the polling station and exploded while polling was going on," Behraman Khan, head of the police station near the Buner town, where the blast took place, told Reuters by telephone.
The attack is the latest in a string of blasts in a region where security forces are battling al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants who have unleashed a wave of suicide and bomb attacks and target killings in response to operations against them.
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