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Pakistan suicide blast kills 'at least 18' in Mardan | |
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A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 18 people, officials say. | |
A bomb went off outside National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) in Mardan. | |
Some reports suggested a suicide bomber had driven a motorbike into the office's gates. | |
The NADRA office was reportedly crowded with people lining up to get ID cards. | |
The Bach Khan Medical complex has received at least 16 dead bodies and dozens of injured people, Reuters reports. | |
Police Superintendant Hashmatullah Zaidi put the death toll at 18. | |
The attack is one of the worst since a security crackdown following the Peshawar school massacre a year ago that saw 150 people killed by the Pakistani Taliban. | |
Offensives against insurgents have reduced major militant attacks from dozens every month in 2014 to no more than one or two a month this year. | |
Mardan is 30 miles (50km) northwest of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pahktunkhwa province. | |
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. |