DHAKA: A provincial law minister and at least seven other people have been killed in a bombing in north-west Pakistan during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

Israrullah Gandapur was greeting locals at his residence in Kullachi village when a suicide bomber struck, witnesses said, reports the BBC.

More than 20 others were wounded.

Gandapur’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party rules Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and backs talks with the Taliban.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

BDST: 2055 HRS, OCT 16, 2013
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