{"id":20023,"date":"2017-01-21T08:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T08:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20023"},"modified":"2017-01-21T08:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T08:07:50","slug":"blast-kills-at-least-21-in-pakistan-vegetable-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/blast-kills-at-least-21-in-pakistan-vegetable-market.html","title":{"rendered":"Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market:-<\/strong> An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan&#8217;s remote northwestern tribal region, an official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">About 40 others were wounded in the blast in Kurram region, near the border with Afghanistan, said Sajid Hussain Turi, member of the National Assembly from the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;We received 21 bodies of the local tribal people killed in the blast,&#8221; Turi said, adding that there would be a mass funeral and then a demonstration over the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Reports differed on the cause of the explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Turi said a homemade bomb had been planted in a pile of tomatoes and exploded as people gathered in the market in Parachinar, Kurram&#8217;s main town, early on Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Taliban militants have been active around Parachinar in the past, ad the town has also suffered sectarian tension between Sunni and Shi&#8217;ite Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Another Kurram official, Sabzali Khan, said early reports had suggested that a suicide bomber was responsible for the blast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">An eyewitness, Ashiq Hussain, said he saw bodies strewn around the market and wounded people crying out for help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;There was no ambulance, and people had to carry the injured in cars and private pickup trucks to the hospital,&#8221; Hussain told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A statement from Pakistan&#8217;s military said army helicopters had been dispatched to evacuate the wounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-pakistan-blast-idUSKBN15507W<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/blast-kills-at-least-21-in-pakistan-vegetable-market.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market Blast kills at least 21 in Pakistan vegetable market:- An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan&#8217;s remote northwestern tribal region, an official said. 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