Bazaar car bomb death toll soars
THE death toll from a car bomb in northwest Pakistan rose to 29 yesterday, unnerving a region already dangerously on edge after the Mumbai attacks.
Another 100 people were wounded on Friday when the bomb went off near Peshawar's famed Storytellers Bazaar, wrecking a Shiite Muslim mosque and a hotel, and setting a string of vehicles and shops ablaze, said Mohammed Khan, a local police official.
Television footage showed survivors frantically carrying bloodied victims through the rubble to private cars and ambulances as fire crews tried to douse the flames.
Neither the motive nor the culprits behind the blast were clear. But provincial government chief Haider Khan Hoti said "external forces" could be to blame – a comment understood in Pakistan to mean India.
Sahib Khan, a doctor at the main government hospital, said they received 20 bodies after the blast, while nine injured died overnight and some of the injured were still critical.
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