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The fruit market this Wednesday faced a deadly blast whoich killed about 24 innocent buyers and sellers. This blast was the early morning headlines in Pakistan after the blast at around 8 in the morning. The blast also moved the neighboring city of Rawalpindi. Chaudhry Nisar,the federal interior minister, visited the blast site and said that investigations into the incident are being carried out and security of the capital would be further increased.
Talking to the media, Dr Ayesha Isani, the spokesperson of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), informed that they have received 18 bodies and 50 injured people at the hospital out of which at least 25 were in extreme critical conditions. Saira Afzal Tarar, the state health minister, told that at least two bodies and 20 injured people have also been shifted to the Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi. Later one of the injured people in the PIMS failed to fight injuries bringing the death toll to 21. Khalid Khattak, the inspector general of police in Islamabad, informed that the blast took place when over 1,500 of people were buying and selling fruits in the market spreading over an area of one kilometer in the Pir Wadhai fruit market, located at southern sector I-11 suburbs of Islamabad.
He said police was patrolling in the market, but they did not have any intelligence tip off of the blast and it is nearly impossible to check all trucks which drop thousands of fruit boxes in the market every day, but they will make plans to work on it.
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