From The BBC News

A suicide bomber has injured Pakistan’s interior minister and killed at least 12 other people at a rally in North West Frontier Province, police say.

Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao had finished giving a speech at the meeting in Charsadda when the blast occurred, a police official said.

Mr Sherpao was taken to hospital in nearby Peshawar with minor injuries, official Mohammed Khan told AP.

The province lies on Pakistan’s troubled border with Afghanistan.

A son of the minister as well as elected politicians and security officials are among the injured, Mr Khan added.

Bacha Gul Wazir, the province’s home secretary, told Reuters news agency he had seen blood on the minister’s face but he did not know whose it was.

According to an unnamed “intelligence official” quoted by AP, security guards blocked the attacker as he tried to get close to the minister.

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