Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: bombing-reached, buildings, casualties-because, from-the-meena, from-the-rubble, hangu-on-friday, high-school, Islamabad, Peshawar, rector, the-federal
PESHAWAR: The death toll from the Meena Bazaar bombing reached 110.
As tense calm descended over the provincial capital, rescue workers of the Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) and a team sent from Islamabad by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) retrieved 10 bodies from the debris of a collapsed building on the second day of the blast.
The bodies of two children were recovered from the rubble of a mosque, Masjid Umme Habiba, late at night while many injured expired in hospital. Of the retrieved bodies, 71 people were completely burnt in the blaze. Those killed in the blast included 32 women and 12 children. There is complete shutter down in the city to mourn the killing of innocent people.
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Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: besides-some, bound-buses, buildings, casualties-because, hangu-on-friday, high-school, Islamabad, militants, obaidullah, other-cities, Peshawar, peshawar-on-friday, rector, the-federal, tremor-jolts
PESHAWAR: The tremor jolts Islamabad and Peshawar on Friday.
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Posted on 30 October 2009. Tags: besides-some, bound-buses, buildings, casualties-because, hangu-on-friday, high-school, militants, obaidullah, other-cities, rector, the-federal
HANGU: Militants blew up a high school and a clinic in Hangu on Friday. A 12-room state-run high school for boys and a clinic in Shahukhel village were turned to rubble by explosives planted by militants, chief of Hangu district administration. There were no casualties because the buildings were empty.
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