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)
