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An armed policeman stands guard outside a poling station during Pakistan's national elections in Karachi on February 8, 2024. Millions of Pakistanis began voting February 8 in an election marred by allegations of poll rigging, with the country's most popular politician in jail and a military-favoured candidate tipped to win. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)
Two security officers were killed and nine wounded by a bomb blast Thursday outside a polling station in southwestern Pakistan, a provincial security official said.
"There was a blast in Lajja town in which two of our men got martyred and nine others got injured," an official of the Pakistan Levies provincial paramilitary force in Balochistan, told media in a text message.
