Bomb Shatters Crowded Market in Pakistan’s Tribal Region Parachinar

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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A crowded vegetable market in one of Pakistan’s tribal region, Parachinar, was hit with a blast on Saturday morning that killed dozens and injured even more. The incident was the first after a relatively long break in terrorist violence in the region. Two terrorist groups have claimed the responsibility of the attack including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami. The coordinated the attack took place in the vegetable market, situated in the Eidgah Market area of Parachinar, the main town of Kurram Agency.

Although the Eidgah Market area has seen four terrorist attacks so far, it was the second deadly bombing in the vegetable market. Earlier in December 2015, another blast in the same market led to at least 23 deaths. The region’s top administrator, Ikramullah Khan, confirmed that at least 25 people have been killed while 87 remained wounded by Saturday’s blast. He explained that “the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) which was hidden in a vegetable crate and remotely detonated.”

One of the witnesses in the market at the time, Ali Hussain, revealed that “the blast brought down the concrete shed at the market, burying several people underneath the debris.” He elucidated that “there was no ambulance, and people had to carry the injured in cars and private pickup trucks to the hospital,” adding that “the victims were mostly vendors and passersby.” Meanwhile, forensic experts of the neighboring Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province have found traces of the IED at the bombsite and the political agent alleged that “we believe the vegetable crates were brought to the market from outside the agency, and the trail will lead us to the culprits.”

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