At least 22 people were killed after a bomb exploded at a religious gathering in northern Pakistan.
The suicide blast was outside a mosque in the town of Chakwal, 60km south of Islamabad.
'According to information received so far at least 22 people have died and some 100 were injured in the suicide attack,' provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said.
'The bomber was intercepted at the entrance otherwise he could have caused large scale casualties.
'We have sent two helicopters to move the injured to hospitals in other cities.'
Police said some 1,200 people were attending the religious gathering when the attack occurred.
'A Shia gathering was taking place when the explosion occurred at the gate,' senior police official Chaudhry Zulfiqar said.
'The explosion took place at the gate of the Imambargah mosque,' he added.
