"The corpse count is 25," from the blast in the main bazaar of Landi Kotal in Khyber tribal
district, local administration chief Mutahir Zeb told AFP, adding more than 30 were maimed. Hospital officials confirmed the toll.Zeb said there were 18 bodies at the Landi Kotal hospital while seven victims had died while being taken for treatment in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, the main town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
The dead included three children aged nine, 10 and 12, he added.
Motor mechanic Sajidullah Khan, who was maimed in the leg, forearms and face, told AFP: "I was checking a car when I heard a huge blast nearby. I knew nothing afterwards and came to in the hospital."Shakoor Jan, an electrician, said he was sitting in his shop when the blast rocked the whole area. "There was fire in several shops," he said.
The blast took place in the main bazaar of Landi Kotal in Khyber tribal region, local administration official Arshad Khan said.
Khan said the blast appeared to be aimed at members of the pro-government Zakha Khel tribe, who oppose a local warlord, Mangal Bagh.
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
"The bomb was planted in a pick-up truck parked near the bus stand," Khan said.
Six shops were gutted and several damaged in the blast, which also destroyed at least eight vehicles, he added.
After the blast, a cylinder also went
kaboom!in a bakery resulting in a huge fire that reportedly led to more casualties.