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.