Updated :
Sunday February 17 , 2013 12:08:38 PM
The death toll from a bombing in the Pakistani city of Quetta has climbed to 84, a senior security official said on Sunday.
He said the figure could rise because 20 people were critically wounded in the attack on Saturday in Quetta's main bazaar.
According to DIG Operations Wazir Khan Nasir the blasts were carriedout through remote control device.
According to CCPO Quetta the explosives were hidden in the tanker of a tractor trolley.
The blasts took place in a an area heavily inhabited by a large number of Hazara community.
Yesterday, 64 people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority.
A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shi'ites.
Burned school bags and books were strewn around.
"The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device fitted to a motorcycle," said Wazir Khan Nasir, deputy inspector general of police in Quetta.
"This is a continuation of terrorism against Shi'ites."
"I saw many bodies of women and children," said an eyewitness at a hospital. "At least a dozen people were burned to death by the blast."
Most Western intelligence agencies have regarded the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda as the gravest threat to nuclear-armed Pakistan, a strategic U.S. ally.
But Pakistani law enforcement officials say Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has become a formidable force.
The death toll from a bombing in the Pakistani city of Quetta has climbed to 84, a senior security official said on Sunday.
He said the figure could rise because 20 people were critically wounded in the attack on Saturday in Quetta's main bazaar.
According to DIG Operations Wazir Khan Nasir the blasts were carriedout through remote control device.
According to CCPO Quetta the explosives were hidden in the tanker of a tractor trolley.
The blasts took place in a an area heavily inhabited by a large number of Hazara community.
Yesterday, 64 people including school children died on Saturday in a bomb attack carried out by extremists from Pakistan's Sunni Muslim majority.
A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni group, claimed responsibility for the bomb in Quetta, which caused casualties in the town's main bazaar, a school and a computer center. Police said most of the victims were Shi'ites.
Burned school bags and books were strewn around.
"The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device fitted to a motorcycle," said Wazir Khan Nasir, deputy inspector general of police in Quetta.
"This is a continuation of terrorism against Shi'ites."
"I saw many bodies of women and children," said an eyewitness at a hospital. "At least a dozen people were burned to death by the blast."
Most Western intelligence agencies have regarded the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda as the gravest threat to nuclear-armed Pakistan, a strategic U.S. ally.
But Pakistani law enforcement officials say Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has become a formidable force.
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