22 killed in suicide attack at govt office in Pak

December 29, 2015 19:12

At least 22 people were killed and 40 others injured here when a motorcycle-borne Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of a crowded government office today, in one of the deadliest attacks in northwest Pakistan since army school massacre that left over 150 dead.

The bomber blew himself up when a security guard stopped him outside the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office that regulates government databases and manages the sensitive registration database of Pakistan citizens in Mardan town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, officials said.

"If the attacker had not been stopped by a security guard at the office's gate, the death toll would be significantly higher," Mardan police Deputy Inspector General Saeed Wazir was quoted as saying by the BBC Urdu.

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