Seven people, including a local PML-N leader have been reportedly killed, and 13 others injured in a blast outside the political office of Sardar Amjad Farooq Khosa, belonging to the ruling PML-N, in Dera Ghazi Khan district today.
According to eyewitnesses, two motorcycle-riding attackers drove into the premises in which the blast took place.
The leader was in Islamabad at the time of the attack.
According to reports, over 40 people were present at his office when the blast took place.
Security personnel, including the Bomb Disposal Squad, have reached the site.
Those critically injured have been taken to a nearby hospital in DG Khan.
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