ISIS Group Claims Responsibility For Twin Blasts In Pakistan

Pakistan Bombing: IS fighters "blew up a motorbike" rigged with explosives "at an election gathering" in Balochistan's Pishin district, the group said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

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More than 25 were killed in two back-to-back blasts in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Wednesday.
Islamabad:

The Islamic State group claimed a second deadly bombing Wednesday in southwestern Pakistan on the eve of a national election.

IS fighters denotated an explosives-rigged motorbike "in the middle of an election gathering... in the Killa Saifullah area in Balochistan" province, the group said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app, not long after claiming a similar attack in the province's Pishin district.

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