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Pakistan suicide blast 'kills 12' in Mardan Pakistan suicide blast kills 'at least 18' in Mardan
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A suicide attack at a government office in northwest Pakistan has killed at least 12 people, officials say. A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 18 people, officials say.
A bomber on a motorbike reportedly drove into the gate of the National Database and Registration Authority in Mardan. A bomb went off outside National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) in Mardan.
"The death toll stands at 12 now, many others are injured," district police chief Faisal Shahzad said. Some reports suggested a suicide bomber had driven a motorbike into the office's gates.
The attack is one of worst since a security crackdown following the Peshawar school massacre a year ago. 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.