Twin bombings at Pakistan political offices kill at least 26 a day before voting begins

  • 6 months ago
Voting will begin tomorrow for parliamentary elections with police deployed across the country to ensure security.
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00:00 At least 26 people were killed in a twin bombing in southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.
00:07 The blasts took place in two different locations, the election offices of a political party
00:13 and an independent candidate of the Jamiat-ul-Ahmad Islam party. The day before parliamentary
00:18 elections are to be held, dozens more were wounded.
00:23 The JUI is one of the leading radical Islamist party and is known for backing the Afghan
00:30 Taliban.
00:32 [SWOOSH]

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