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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A bomb believed rigged to a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in southwestern Pakistan and wounded 21 people Friday, one critically, a medical official said. It was unclear who was behind the bombing outside a branch of the state-owned Allied Bank Ltd., which was open at the time, in Quetta, the capital of insurgency-wracked Baluchistan.
"So far I can only confirm that the bomb was planted outside the bank, but we don't know who carried out this attack," said Zahid Afaq, Quetta's deputy police superintendent.
Twenty-one people were wounded in the blast, one critically, said Anwar Kamal, a physician at the Quetta Government Hospital where the victims were brought. The bomb also smashed windows at the bank and destroyed three cars.
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