2nd LD Writethru: Death toll of NW Pakistan market blast rises to 17
Xinhua, December 13, 2015 Adjust font size:
Death toll of the bomb attack at a market in Pakistan's northwest town of Parachinar on Sunday has risen to 17, officials said.
Amjad Ali Khan, the political administrator of the area, said that 55 people were also injured in the deadly explosion which was triggered off by a remote controlled device in the capital city Parachinar of the country's northwest Kurram Agency, located along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
He said that some unidentified militants detonated the bomb fixed inside a scrap shop in the market of second-hand clothes.
Two suspects were arrested by the law enforcement agencies and were shifted to some unknown place for investigations.
The blast took place at about 12:30 p.m. (local time) when people were buying winter clothes in the market.
Two vehicles and several shops were destroyed in the explosion.
The injured people were shifted to the District Headquarters Parachinar from where the 15 critically wounded victims were shifted to Peshawar for medical aid.
Police have cordoned off the area for a search operation.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
Both the country's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Mamnoon Hussain have condemned the attack and ordered the hospital staff to provide best possible medical facility to the injured people. Enditem