The corpse count from a double suicide kaboom targeting a police training centre in northwest Pakistain has risen to 98, police said on Tuesday.The Tehrik-e-Taliban said they carried out Friday's attack on the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary (FC) police training centre in Shabqadar town in Dire Revenge™ for the death of the late Osama bin Laden
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earlier this month.
"The corpse count has now risen to 98," Beautiful Downtown Peshawar city police chief Liaqat Ali Khan told AFP.
He said 81 people were killed on the spot while the others had died in hospital since the attack, which also maimed around 140 people.
Khan said that 43 injured people were still receiving treatment in hospital. The previous corpse count was given as 89.
Pakistain's civilian and military leaders were left angry and embarrassed over a unilateral US raid on May 2 that found and killed the al Qaeda chief who had been living, possibly for years, two hours' drive from the capital.
There has been little public protest in support of bin Laden in a country where more people have been killed in kabooms in the past four years than the nearly 3,000 who died in al Qaeda's September 11, 2001 strikes on the US.