UPDATE:
Note: Photo included.
“Peshawar suicide car blast kills 41, wounds 100”
Friday, 09 Oct, 2009
PHOTO CAPTION: “Explosives were planted in a car and when it went off it hit a bus, provincial Information Minister Iftikhar Hussain said.”
SNIPPET: “PESHAWAR: A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle along a road near a well-known market in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 41 people.
The attack in the Khyber Bazaar area came as Pakistan’s army prepares for another major operation in the al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan tribal region. The militants have threatened bombings if the army doesn’t back off.
Television footage showed the charred skeleton of a bus flipped on its side in the middle of a major road. Twisted remains of a motorbike lay alongside the bus. A nearby vehicle was in flames.
Noor Alam saw the vehicle explode, and suffered wounds on his legs and face.
‘I saw a blood soaked leg landing close to me,’ Alam told The Associated Press at the overwhelmed Lady Reading hospital. ‘I understood for the first time in my life what a doomsday would look like.’
Peshawar Police Chief Liaqat Ali Khan said the attacker was in a car packed with ‘a huge quantity of explosives and artillery rounds.’
A minibus apparently carrying passengers nearby was also levelled in the blast.”
"‘I saw a blood soaked leg landing close to me,’ Alam told The Associated Press at the overwhelmed Lady Reading hospital. ‘I understood for the first time in my life what a doomsday would look like.’"