80 killed in Peshawar market blast

Wednesday, 28 Oct, 2009 2:21 pm

80 killed in Peshawar market blast: officials
PESHAWAR : The death toll has risen to 80 after a massive bomb attack that ripped through a crowded Peshawar market on Wednesday, a hospital and local government official said.

"Eighty people have been killed and 200 wounded in this blast," North West Frontier Province information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters at the bomb site after visiting the main local hospital.

"The death toll is more than 80. Most of them are women and children," said Doctor Sahib Gul, head of the casualty department at Lady Reading Hospital.

"We are facing a shortage of blood. I appeal on citizens to come and donate blood," said Doctor Zafar Iqbal.
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TTP spokesman Azam Tariq has phoned BBC and denied any involvement in Peshawar blast and said it may be the work of Black Water who are freely roaming in the country and even the police are not authorized to check their vehicles.

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