A bomb blast at a busy market Sunday in the restive northwestern Pakistani city of Dera Islamil Khan killed more than eight persons were and injured over 20 others, reports say.
The bomb was planted in a rickshaw at Pir Market, located near a bus station, and the explosion went off at a time when a large number of persons were present in the market. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital by people in private vehicles. Ambulances also rushed to the site.
There were also reports of unidentified persons resorting to firing soon after the blast. According to officials, about five to six kilograms of explosives were used in the bomb. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
Dera Ismail Khan, which has been hit by sectarian violence in recent months, has witnessed several bomb attacks on security forces and police.
Pakistan has been hit by a string of deadly bomb blasts in recent weeks, many of them claimed by the Taliban for the military offensive against them across the northwest of the country.
Last week, the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) capital of Peshawar that is frequented by foreigners was targeted by suicide-bombers, killing over 15 persons. Militants on Friday attacked the heavily-guarded home of Pakistan's army commander heading the military offensive against Taliban, leaving two persons wounded.
The Taliban cited bombing of seminaries in Hangu and Orakzai several days ago by security forces as the reason for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan carrying out an attack at the hotel.
Prominent anti-Taliban cleric Maulana Sarfraz Naeemi, and 10 others were killed and nearly 100 injured when suicide-bombers struck at the compound of a religious group in Lahore and a mosque in an army supply depot in northwestern Pakistani city of Nowshera Friday.
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