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Deadly blast rocks SW Pakistan

a blast apparently targeting police outside a polio vaccination center in the southwestern Pakistan

 

At least 15 people were killed in a blast apparently targeting police outside a polio vaccination center in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, according to officials.

The officers had been gathering outside the center to accompany polio workers for the third day of a vaccination campaign in the province of Balochistan, of which Quetta is the capital.

There are 15 dead, including 12 police, one paramilitary, and two civilians, a local police official said, adding that at least 10 people had been wounded, nine of whom were police and one a civilian.

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