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Blast at government office in Pakistan kills 12 - media


    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An explosion outside a government office in Pakistan killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, a hospital official told Pakistani television.

    About 30 people were wounded in the blast in the northwestern town of Mardan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a doctor at a hospital told GEO TV.

    Police told Reuters the explosion was at a branch of the National Database and Registration Authority, which issues government ID cards.

    (Reporting by Jibran Ahmad; Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Robert Birsel)