Death toll rises to 22 in Pakistan railway station bombing

Quetta, Pakistan: A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people Saturday at a railway station in Balochistan province, local officials and a militant gro...

Quetta, Pakistan: A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people Saturday at a railway station in Balochistan province, local officials and a militant group said.

The blast hit as passengers waited on a platform at the main railway station in the provincial capital Quetta.

"The death toll has risen to 22, including one woman," said Shahid Rind, Balochistan government spokesman, raising a toll of 17 provided by police.

An AFP journalist saw pools of blood and ripped backpacks at the scene, where a large metal sheet protecting passengers from the elements had been blown off.