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Pakistan: Polling for Balochistan local govt underway in 32 districts, no casualty reported as grenade blast occurs close to women polling station
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Pakistan: Polling for Balochistan local govt underway in 32 districts, no casualty reported as grenade blast occurs close to women polling station

| @indiablooms | 29 May 2022, 06:17 pm

Quetta: Polling is underway for the Local government (LG) polls in 32 out of 34 districts of Pakistan’s Balochistan on Sunday.

As per local media report, in Balochistan, a total of 17,774 candidates are contesting the LG elections.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has set up 13,533 polling booths in 5,624 polling stations, of which 2,034 stations have been declared very sensitive and 1,974 sensitive where special security arrangements have been made, reports Dawn.

Of all, 576 polling stations have been set up for men, 562 for women, whereas 4,088 stations are non-segregated.

The polling will continue from 8 am to 5 pm without any break. In total, as many as 3,552,398 registered voters would use their right to vote in today’s elections.

Meanwhile, a blast was reported at around 2 pm outside a women's polling station in the Mengal Union Council of the Nushki district.

SP Abdul Saboor Shah confirmed to Dawn News that it was a grenade attack.

No casualty has been reported so far.

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