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Death toll in Mingora suicide bombing reaches 50

Updated at: 1910 PST, Saturday, March 01, 2008 MINGORA: The death toll in the suicide bombing here reached 50, while the 16 dead persons were buried in the echoing shrieks and screams of the bereaved throwing the volatile valley into an unprecedented sorrowful and saddened environment.

Three more persons, who were wounded Friday evening in the suicide bombing at the funeral prayer of DSP Javed Iqbal here, succumbed to their injuries at the Peshawar Lady Reading Hospital, which has upped the death toll in the incident to 50.

Funeral prayers were offered for the deceased at different places including Janazo Masjid and Makan Bagh. Malukabad Union Council Naib Nazim Habibullah besides Iqbal, Ghulam Hussain and others are included among those buried in their ancestral graveyards. Large number of local persons attended the funeral prayer congregations.

Eyewitnesses told that the suicide bombing death toll could be more than the official figure, as several persons were also reported missing, whose search was on.

[fairnas]

very sad.............. ALLAH in ki magfarat farmay (amee)