Death toll from Pakistan market attack rises to 42


  • World
  • Monday, 30 Sep 2013

Security officials, rescue workers and residents gather at the site of a bomb attack in Peshawar September 29, 2013. REUTERS/Khuram Parvez

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The death toll from a car bomb explosion in an ancient market in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar rose to at least 42 on Monday, after the third attack in the area in a week.

The blast ripped through the busy centuries-old market known as Quiswakhani, or the storytellers' bazaar, in Peshawar's old city on Sunday, exactly a week after more than 80 Christians were killed in a twin suicide bomb attack on a nearby church.

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