At least 31 dead in Pakistan during an attack near the polling station



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At least 31 people were killed and 32 others were wounded in a suicide bombing as a police van pbaded by an electoral college in the Pakistani city of Quetta when of the first attack. "There are 21 dead and 20 wounded in the attack." A suicide bomber blew himself up in a police van in front of an electoral college. the dead there are voters and there can be also some police " affirmed to Efe a spokesperson of the police of Quetta, Muhammed Ramzan [19659002] The main election candidates, Shahbaz Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), a party that has just ended a term, and former cricketer Imran Khan, of Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf (PTI), sentenced the attack.

Khan, in a message on your official Twitter account, sentenced "the terrorist attack in Quetta perpetrated by the enemies of Pakistan who seek to alter the (democratic) process " and expressed their desire that the Pakistanis" defeat terrorism ".

" I am hurt by the martyrdom of innocent, including police officers, ( …) as they exercised their democratic right to vote. My deepest condolences to the sorry families, "wrote Sharif on Twitter

This is the first major attack on a day of elections in Pakistan where, since the morning 105 million Pakistanis were called to cast their vote in one of the 85,000 authorized polling stations.

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