Blast at government office in Pakistan kills 12 – media

 

ISLAMABAD: An explosion outside a Government office in Pakistan killed at least 12 people, a hospital official told Pakistani television.

About 30 people were wounded in the blast in the northwestern town of Mardan today, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a doctor at a hospital told GEO TV.

Police told Reuters the explosion was at a branch of the National Database and Registration Authority, which issues government ID cards. (AGENCIES)