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At least 30 killed in suicide blast on Pakistan polling station

QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) — At least 30 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide attack on a polling station in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said, as millions voted in a nationwide election Wednesday. “(The bomber) was trying to enter the polling station. When police tried to stop him he blew himself up,” a local administration official in Quetta, Hashim Ghilzai, told AFP. Dr Wasim Baig, spokesman for the Sandeman Provincial […]