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AT LEAST 31 people were killed when a suicide bomber struck a polling station in Quetta, Pakistan, yesterday as residents queued up to vote in the general election.
Witness Abdul Haleem, whose uncle was killed in the blast, said he saw a motorbike ram a crowd of voters before “there was a deafening bang followed by a thick cloud of smoke and dust, and so much crying.”
Quetta is capital of Baluchistan province, which has seen more violence than any other part of Pakistan during the election campaign.
The deadliest single incident was a suicide bombing earlier this month at a rally that killed 149 people, including candidate Siraj Raisani, but hundreds of locals — mostly Shi’ite Muslims targeted by Salafist groups such as Isis — have been murdered.
Reports suggested violence broke out between parties in a number of areas, with at least two others killed. Islamabad deployed 350,000 troops to polling stations around the country.
