By Mark Memmott
"A car bombing outside a politician's home in central Pakistan has killed 22 people and wounded 70 others," the Associated Press reports from Islamabad. As the AP adds, "Tuesday's attack in Dera Ghazi Khan town in Punjab province is the latest in a series to hit Pakistan in recent months."
The death toll from today's bombing has been rising over recent hours. Earlier, officials were saying "at least 10" people had been killed.
In neighboring Afghanistan, a suicide car bomber killed at least eight people outside the Kabul home of a former vice president today. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson says the intended target appears to have been former vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud. He's the brother of anti-Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed by al-Qaida two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. Ahmad Zia Massoud was not injured in today's attack.
Source:npr.org/
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