Update 2: Two suspects rounded up as deah toll in Pakistan blast climbs to 31

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As the fire again erupted early Saturday at the site of the previous evening's blast in Peshawar, capital city of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the death toll in the terrorism incident climbed to 31 as nine more bodies were recovered from the debris of the damaged buildings.

Two persons were arrested Saturday for their suspected involvement in the blast, which many in Pakistan believe is handiwork of some foreign hands. A junior police official said that in view of the fire at the site of the blast, the incident could be described similar to the recent Marriott Hotel bombing in Islamabad, in which investigators had found that an Indian terrorist had provided RDX via Afghanistan.

The police official, who wanted not to be identified, said the homegrown terrorist usually did not use this type of explosive material in the recent attacks.

At least 22 people were killed and over 60 injured in a car-bomb blast in a busy alley behind the historic Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Friday evening.
The blast occurred at around 7:25 p.m. local time. Most of the bodies retrieved from the debris were either mutilated or burnt. Ten women and six children were among those injured in the blast.
Pieces of evidence collected from the spot suggested that the explosives were planted in a car, parked outside the main gate of a worship place and no suicide bomber was involved. "Seventeen people were killed in the blast apparently triggered through a bomb planted in a car parked on Church Road,” said Safwat Ghayyur, chief of the capital city police officer.
NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain put the toll at 20.
The blast was so powerful that the bang was heard as far as seven kilometres. Besides a multi-storey hotel, a government school for girls and dozens of houses and shops were either destroyed or severely damaged in the explosion.
The blast led to break out of fire in several markets and stocks of plastic goods. Flames were still high till late even after hectic efforts of the fire fighters and rescue workers. Goods worth hundreds of millions of rupees were reduced to ashes in the nearby markets and houses.
Rescue workers were facing problems in retrieving the bodies and pulling out the injured from the rubble of the buildings because of darkness as power supply to the area was suspended after the explosion. The narrow streets also proved a hurdle in movement of the ambulances and fire brigade vehicles.
Soon after the incident, the provincial government authorities, including Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti, pointed to the involvement of foreign hand in the blast. However, they did name any foreign country, saying nothing could be said for sure before proper investigation into the incident.
Intelligence agencies have time and again pointed to involvement of 'foreign hand' in the terrorism incidents in Peshawar and other parts of the NWFP and adjacent tribal areas after finding some leads in this regard. Some investigators even accused India of involvement in most of the recent terror attacks.

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