Twin explosions in main Parachinar market kill 41, injured 122

Twin explosions in the Kurram tribal region’s main Parachinar bazaar has killed at least 41 people and injured more than 120 others on Friday, officals said.

Officials at the Governor House in Peshawar said that according to the infromation communicated by the political administration in Kurram twenty of the injured are said to be in critical condition and are likely to be shifted to Peshawar.

The first explosion took place near a mosque in main market of Parachinar. Express News correspondent Ehtisham Khan said some eye witnesses suggested that the first blast was a suicide blast.

Residents from the nearby crowded markets rushed to shift the injured to the Parachinar headquarters hospital, where two of the injured succumbed to injuries.

An emergency was declared in hospital.

“We can confirm the death of 41 people in the twin blasts. More than 150 others have been injured in the attack,” doctor Sabir Hussein, head of the hospital, told AFP.

Parachinar Political Agent Riaz Mehsud said that most of the injured have been moved to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Kohat and some will also be shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.

“We have sent 20 critically wounded people to major hospitals in Peshawar and Kohat to save their lives,” Hussein added.

Some sources said that the bombs used a timed device to detonate, while others suggested they were suicide bombs.

As many as 12 cars and several shops were also destroyed in the blasts.

Earlier on Friday, two people were killed when a road-side planted bomb hit a passenger vehicle in Pakistan’s northwest tribal region of Kurram Agency on Friday afternoon.

A total of three blasts in total occurred in Parachinar on Friday, killing at least 41 and injuring at least 122.