TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/At least 32 people including three Sikhs were killed and more than 40 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market outside a religious seminary in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, officials said.
According to initial investigation, an improvised explosive device was planted in a bike that was used for transporting vegetables to the popular Friday Market (Juma Bazar) near an imambargah, a Shia religious place, in Orakzai tribal district’s Kalaya area, bordering Afghanistan.
“This is a Friday bazaar, where hundreds of people had gathered for groceries,” Deputy Commissioner Khalid Iqbal said.”The ground is then used for Friday prayers as well,” he added. At least 32 people were killed while more than 40 others injured. “Three Sikh traders and three children were also among the dead in the Orakzai blast,” Deputy Commissioner of Orakzai Tribal district Khalid Iqbal told.
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