Death toll from Pakistan marketplace bombs now 57
The death toll from a pair of overnight bombings at a busy market in a Shiite-dominated region of northern Pakistan rose to 57, officials said Saturday.
As many as 167 people were also wounded in Friday's apparent sectarian attacks in the town of Parachinar, which sits in the Kurram tribal area that borders Afghanistan to the west, hospital official Shabir Hussain and Shiite leader Hamid Ali said. Hussain said almost all the dead and wounded were Shiites. There was no claim of responsibility. (AP)
