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Gallery: Blast tears through Pakistan market
A car bomb ripped through a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday [AFP]
Published On 28 Oct 2009
28 Oct 2009
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The marketplace in which the bomb was detonated was full with women and children shopping for food for their families [AFP]
The blast was suspected to have been caused by the Pakistani Taliban in response to the military's offensive in South Waziristan [AFP]
At least 90 people were killed in the attack [AFP]
The blast brought down buildings and caused a large fire [AFP]
Doctors said that at least 220 people were also injured in the attack [AFP]
The death toll is the largest from a single attack in the past two years [AFP]
Since the South Waziristan assault began, attacks on civilian areas have increased sharply [AFP]