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At least 15 people are killed in a suspected suicide bombing outside a polio vaccination center in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.

Most of the casualties are believed to possess been cops safeguarding the practice.

Armed guards are routine for polio workers in Pakistan, that have become the goal of several lethal attacks by Islamist militants in the past couple of years.

Militants fight polio vaccination, saying this is a Western conspiracy to sterilise Pakistani youngsters.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two states where the condition continues to be endemic.

The explosion occurred as polio workers each day before heading out on their vaccination rounds and security staff were reporting for duty, said a minister in Balochistan state of, Sarfaraz Bugti.

The deputy commissioner, Dawood Khilji in Quetta, said the death toll had climbed with 14 police officers plus one passerby supported deceased.

When they were hit, among the police officers who survived the blast said his team was preparing to leave for assorted neighbourhoods around Quetta.

Mr Khilji told the BBC the polio drive in the state hadn’t been frozen as an outcome of the strike.

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JALALABAD: An explosion was reported to foreign consulate buildings including those of Iran, Pakistan and India, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. Attaullah Khugyani said there were no reports of casualties in the blast, which followed an assault on the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar I Sharif on Sunday.The goal of the strike wasn’t immediately clear and there is no claim of duty.

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A bomb has gone off in the north western city of Mardan outside a government office, killing at least 12 people and wounding 35, Pakistani authorities said.

The assault happened outside the regional office of the National Database and Registration Authority, which issues Pakistanis identity cards, said senior police officer Saeed Khan Wazir.

Authorities are still trying to ascertain when the bomb was rigged to a motorcycle or whether the attack was completed by a suicide bomber.

The dead and wounded are being taken to hospitals, Mr Wazir said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but preceding such attacks are blamed on the Pakistani Taliban.

Mardan is about 50 kilometres (30 miles) north west of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.

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