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Pakistan bomb blast kills at least 14 near polio centre

A bomb blast on Wednesday killed at least 14 people close to a polio eradication centre in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police said, with most of those killed policemen who were providing security to vaccination workers.

The blast hit a police van, and police are investigating whether it was a suicide bomb, senior police officer Abdul Waheed Khattak told local TV channels.

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