15 killed, 55 injured in Pak blast

The market was filled with a large number of people who were buying used and second-hand winter clothes.

A bomb blast ripped through a crowded bazaar in a mainly Shite area of Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding dozens more, officials said.

Meanwhile, two suspects were taken into custody from the blast site whereas police state that bomb was hidden in a cloth bale.

Parachinar is the main town in the Kurram tribal region, which has been a scene of violence from Islamic militants and sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

“At least 10 have died and more than 30 were injured”, said a senior police official who requested anonymity. He predicted the death toll might rise due to the severity of some of the injuries.

It was unclear whether the blast was a suicide attack or a remote-controlled blast.

The injured were shifted to the Agency Headquarter Hospital and other hospitals in the nearby areas.

The insurgency has claimed the lives of around 25,000 civilians and security forces’ personnel, according to the South Asia Terror Portal.

There has also been a crackdown on extremist groups that target religious minorities.