Rescue workers use a crane to lift sections of the collapsed roof after a blast near the home of the home minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, in Attock, Pakistan, August 16, 2015. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb killed a Pakistani provincial minister and at least eight others when it destroyed the minister's home on Sunday in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political heartland of Punjab.
Police said the blast appeared to be a suicide attack, launched as Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada held a meeting in his hometown of Attock in the country's north.
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