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Death toll from Pak bomb rises to 105

The death toll from a massive car bomb attack that ripped through a crowded market in Pakistan's Peshawar has risen to 105, the city's main hospital confirmed.Pak suffers bloodiest militant attack in 2 years

Updated on: Oct 29, 2009, 15:10:36 IST
AFP | By , Islamabad
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The death toll from a massive car bomb attack that ripped through a crowded market in Pakistan's Peshawar has risen to 105, the city's main hospital confirmed on Thursday.

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"A total of 105 people have been killed. Seventy-one of them were identified. Thirteen are children and 27 were women," Doctor Zafar Iqbal told AFP at the Lady Reading Hospital.

The list of dead was pasted on the outside of the hospital. An intelligence official in Peshawar also confirmed the same death toll.

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