43 killed in multiple bomb blast in Pakistan
Peshawar: At least 43 people were killed and over 100 injured in Pakistan on Sunday in different attacks.
In the first incident, at least 17 people, including four children, were killed and nearly 50 injured when the powerful remote-controlled bomb targeted a passing convoy of security forces near a busy market here in northwest Pakistan..
The suspected suicide bombing near Abu Talib Imambargah at the Shiite-majority Hazara town also injured over 60 persons. In South Waziristan, a rocket attack killed four people and injured 15 others while in the North Waziristan tribal region, a roadside bomb killed three security personnel, officials said.
Marwat told reporters that the injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital and conditions of some of them were critical. According to police‚ the bomb was planted in a car and was triggered when the convoy approached was passing through Badaber area of Peshawar.
Bomb Disposal Squad official Abdul Haq said 40-50 KG of explosives were used in the blast, which also destroyed 10 vehicles and several shops. After the blast‚ gunshots were exchanged between security forces and the terrorists.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have strongly condemned the blast.
