Death toll in Peshawar blast reaches 92

Thu Oct 29, 2009

The death toll from a car bomb that struck a market in Pakistan's most populous northwestern city has reached 92, as rescues workers pulled more bodies from the rubble.

The Wednesday afternoon explosion ripped through the crowded market in Peshawar, a gateway to the country's lawless tribal areas.

A senior medic at Peshawar's main 'Lady Reading' Hospital told the AFP news agency that most of the dead were women and children.

"We have 92 dead bodies and we have registered 217 injured people,” said the medic. “Nineteen of the dead are women and 11 are children."

The death toll is expected to rise as some of the injured were reported to be in critical condition.

The heavy blast came just hours after the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan's capital of Islamabad for talks over the so-called 'war on terror.'

A wave of militant attacks in Pakistani cities has killed nearly 300 people, so far, in October.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/109858.html.