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At least 20 soldiers have been killed and some 22 others wounded after a bomb blast took place inside an army recruitment centre in northwest Pakistan.
"The bomb blast took place inside a military area, we have reports that several soldiers have been killed in the blast. There was an army parade at the time of the blast," Abdullah Khan, a senior police officer in Mardan, said on Thursday morning.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that the bomber was dressed as a school boy.
"It is winter so most of the children are clad in heavy clothes, where he would have hid the bomb, and nobody would have suspected a boy dressed in school uniform to carry out the attack."
Our correspondent said that Mardan had seen a lot of trouble in the past.
"This is not the first time that there has been an attack in Mardan - there was recently an assassination attempt on the deputy inspector general of police and also the Punjab regimental centre was attacked."
Witnesses said the explosion took place near a school.
Taliban fighters have managed to keep up pressure on Pakistan's US-backed government with bombings despite a series of military offensives against their strongholds.
The attack took place in a military area in the town of Mardan in northwest Pakistan, the epicenter of the conflict between the government and the Taliban.
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Map of Pakistan locating the town of Mardan
Al-Jazeera
