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30 killed in blast in NW Pakistan

At least 30 people have been killed and 15 hurt in a suspected suicide car bomb attack in northwest Pakistan.

The blast destroyed a school in the town of Buner on the edge of the Swat valley, where voters were casting ballots in a parliamentary by-election.

The explosion caused the collapse of a nearby market, police said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, the latest in a wave of suicide and other attacks across Pakistan that have claimed more than 1,500 lives in the past 18 months.

The Pakistani military has been fighting Taliban-linked militants in the area for more than a year, but the violence has continued unabated.