In Pakistan, two bomb blasts outside campaign offices of candidates contesting general election, killed nine persons and injured more than 30 in northwest today.

A remote-controlled explosive device went off outside an election office in Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province killing six persons and injuring 21 others.

Hours later, another bomb went off outside an election office in Maqsoodabad, a suburb of Peshawar, killing three persons and injuring 10 others, including three children. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombings.