Pakistan deaths in poll bombing

28/12/2008| IslamWeb

A car bomb at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has killed 20 people and wounded 14 others.

The attack on Sunday during a by-election for a provincial assembly seat also killed four children, police and government officials said.

About 12 other people were injured in the attack and government officials said that the death toll may rise due to the school building, in which the poll was being held, collapsing.

"There are still people under the rubble. Villagers are trying to retrieve the trapped people," Kashif Khan, a witness, said.

"We don't know how many people are dead and how many alive."

The school is in the town of Buner, in the North West Frontier Province. Security forces are attempting to subdue al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the area.

It was unclear whether the bomb was triggered by remote control or a suicide attacker.

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Map of Pakistan locating North West Frontier

Al-Jazeera