Deaths as bombings rock Pakistan
Up to 24 people killed and 66 wounded in two bomb attacks near capital Islamabad.
The white-coloured 40-seater bus was completely destroyed and mutilated bodies lay on the street, a witness said.
Mohammad Tahir said: “There was a huge bang then I saw the bus in a mangled heap.
“Body parts were scattered across the road and there was blood everywhere.”
The second bomb blast happened about three kilometres away in another market in the city, Cheema said.
Mohammed Afzal, a police official, said the dead and injured had been transported to different hospitals.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing.
Several retaliatory attacks have rocked Pakistan after the government of General Pervez Musharraf crushed an uprising by armed Islamic students at Islamabad’s Red Mosque in July.