Ramadan observance in Pakistan: At least 41 murdered in explosions at busy marketplace

South China Morning Post Reports

Twin explosions rocked a busy marketplace in northwest Pakistan yesterday killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 150 others, officials said, in the deadliest attack to hit the country during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The explosion at the bazaar in Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sent handcarts flying as shoppers bought food to open their fasts at sunset.

Doctors at the main public hospital said 41 people were killed, and 20 critically wounded among the more than 150 injured.

Dead bodies quickly overwhelmed Parachinar's hospital, said Dr. Zahid Hussain, who works at the hospital.

"We have no place to keep the wounded," the doctor said. "Many of them are lying on the hospital floor and on the lawn.

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