A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 22 people, police say.
The bomb went off outside the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office in the town of Mardan.
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban said it carried out the attack, which left more than 30 others wounded.
The attack is one of the deadliest since last December's massacre of 150 pupils and teachers in Peshawar.
The bomber in Mardan reportedly arrived on a motorbike and blew himself up when stopped by a security guard outside the Nadra building.
Police put the death toll at 22 so far. Most of the dead and wounded are civilians, correspondents say.The Bacha Khan Medical complex has received at least 16 dead bodies and dozens of injured people, Reuters news agency reports.
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