Bomb Attack on Pakistan District Court Kills 7

A government spokesman says a suicide bomber has attacked a district court in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 7 people and wounding 40 others. Spokesman Mushtaq Ghani says two lawyers, two police officers and three passers-by were killed in the bombing in the northwestern town of Mardan. Ghani says the attacker first hurled a grenade and then blew himself up at the main gate of the district court. He says some of the wounded are in a critical condition.

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