20 dead in Pakistan car bombing

PAKISTAN: Twenty people were killed and 14 wounded Sunday in a car bomb blast at a polling station in an area of northwest Pakistan rocked by a violent campaign to impose Islamic law, police said.

The car bomb destroyed a school in the town of Bunir on the edge of the restive Swat valley, where voters were casting ballots in a parliamentary by-election, police said.

It was not immediately clear whether the bomb was triggered by remote control or whether a suicide attacker detonated the explosives.

"Twenty people were killed and 14 injured in a powerful car bomb attack near the polling station," local police official Behramand Khan told AFP.

"The bomb was so powerful that it completely destroyed the school building and badly damaged nearby houses and other buildings," he said, adding that people were still buried under the rubble.

Peshawar, Sunday, AFP