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Fourteen people were killed after a suicide bomber attacked a political rally in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, where government troops have been battling insurgency for over a decade.
The National reports that the attack was among three in the country on Tuesday that claimed a total of 25 lives, according to officials.
Dozens of people were wounded in the Balochistan explosion, which took place in the car park. of a stadium in the provincial capital, Quetta. Hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party ((BNP) had gathered there, according too provincial officers.
At least seven of the wounded were in critical condition, the officials said.
Yet another attack in Balochistan, near the border with Iran, claimed five more lives on Tuesday, while six soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on yheir base in Khyber Pakhtunhwa province.
