Blast hits Pak market, kills 26
A bomb planted in a pickup truck killed at least 26 people at a market in northwest Pakistan yesterday and wounded 65, security and hospitals officials said, in one of the largest bombing death tolls in weeks.
The target in the town of Landi Kotal appeared to be a tribal leader allied with the government against the Pakistani Taliban, the Islamist militant group blamed for many of the suicide bombings across the country, security officials said.
Hospital officials said 65 people were wounded, most of them fruit and vegetable vendors.
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