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Nine killed, 36 injured in DI Khan market blast
PESHAWAR: At least nine people were killed and 36 injured in a remote-controlled bombing in the Dera Ismail Khan district on Sunday, police and locals have said.

A police official told Daily Times by telephone that a remote-controlled bomb had been planted in a cart in the Tijarat Gunj area. He said it detonated at around 12:15pm, adding most of the deceased were civilians. “The bomb was planted in a cycle-rickshaw and it was rush hour in the bazaar at the time of the blast,” Syed Mohsin Shah, the district commissioner officer (DCO) of DI Khan, told AFP.

Government official Inayatullah said five to six kilogrammes of explosives were planted in a fruit vendor’s pushcart. Police official Muhammad Iqbal put the death toll at eight, with 20 wounded, the Associated Press reported. He claimed the attack had to be in response to the Swat operation.

At a hospital where some of the wounded were taken, wails and cries filled the air. “It was crowded there when something big exploded,” said 30-year-old Ilyas Ahmad, whose legs were wounded. “It was a big noise. Everybody was crying. Bodies were lying there. People were lying around in blood.”

A total of seven shops were destroyed as a result of the blast. A police official confirmed that two of the deceased were Afghans. The DCO told APP that one suspect had been arrested from the site of the explosion.

Meanwhile, sources told Daily Times the blast occurred in the Landa Bazaar area. They said a local had seen a man parking the pushcart and had tried to stop him but the bomb had exploded, killing both of them.
Posted by: Steve White 2009-06-15
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