A Bloody Week Of Terrorism In Northwestern Pakistan Ends With A Car Bomb Blast

Pakistan Blast Kills At Least 41 At Historic Centuries-Old Market -- Washington Post

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A car bomb tore through a centuries-old market in Peshawar on Sunday, killing at least 41 people in the third major attack on the Pakistani city in a week.

The midday explosion at Qissa Khawani Bazaar, or the market of storytellers, damaged dozens of shops and injured more than 100 people. The carnage also included 16 members of an extended family who burned to death in a van, making them the latest symbol of Pakistan’s painful struggle to combat terrorism within its borders.

The market in Peshawar’s old city is not far from All Saints Church, where 85 people were killed a week ago in what is thought to be the worst attack on Christians in Pakistan’s history. That attack was followed by a bus bombing Friday on the outskirts of town that killed 18 government workers rushing home for Friday Muslim prayers.

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Death toll from Pakistan market attack rises to 42 -- Reuters
Pakistan explosion: Peshawar market blast toll rises to 42 -- BBC
A Deadly Week in Northwestern Pakistan Ends With a Car Bomb Blast -- New York Times
Car bomb kills 40 in northwest Pakistan -- USA Today/AP
Car bomb kills dozens at bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan -- L.A. Times
Twin Blasts Kill Dozens In Northwest Pakistan -- Radio Free Europe
Car bomb kills 41 in third Peshawar blast this week -- Christian Science Monitor

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Christians In Pakistan Protest After Yesterday's Bloody Terror Attack That Killed At Least 80

Pakistan Blasts: Burials Amid Anger After Peshawar Church Attack -- BBC

Burials have been taking place in the Pakistani city of Peshawar after a double suicide bombing killed at least 80 people at a church on Sunday.

It is thought to be the deadliest ever attack on Pakistan's Christians.

Two Islamist militant groups with Taliban links said they ordered the attack to hit back at US drone strikes.

Political and religious leaders condemned the attack, but angry crowds took to the streets denouncing the state's failure to protect minorities.

On Sunday, demonstrators blocked roads in Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi and rallies are also expected in major cities on Monday.

The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Peshawar reports that as mourners reached the site where the coffins bearing the dead are lined up, some broke down on the spot.

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Pakistani Christians protest church attack as death toll rises to 85 -- Washington Post/AP
Pakistani Christians protest over bloody church bombing -- AFP
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Pakistan’s Christians struggle with casualties after bloody church bombing kills 85 -- Washington Post
Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan -- New York Times
Church bombing threatens Pakistan's push for Taliban talks -- James Norton, Christian Science Monitor
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Suicide Bombing At A Historic Christian Church In Pakistan Kills 78

Suicide Bomb Attack Kills 75 At Pakistan Church -- L.A. Times

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Two explosions outside a crowded church in northwest Pakistan just as Sunday services ended killed at least 60 people and wounded more than 100, authorities said, one of Pakistan’s worst attacks against Christians in years.

While officials placed the death toll at more than 60, humanitarian organizations reported handling at least 75 corpses. [Updated, 7:35 a.m. PDT Sept. 22: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Home Secretary Akhtar Ali Shah now said in his latest statement that the official death toll had reached 75.]

The dead and injured, including women, children and police officers, overwhelmed the emergency ward of Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, the city’s largest hospital, where television footage showed hallways filled with corpses, badly wounded patients and women and children crying over the charred bodies of relatives. Many bodies were in such bad shape they could not be easily identified, doctors said.

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Suicide bombers kill 77 at Pakistan church -- CNN
Sunday morning bomb at Christian church in Pakistan kills at least 75 -- NBC
Dozens killed as suicide bombers attack Christian worshipers in Pakistan -- Washington Post
Pakistan: 78 killed as Taliban suicide bombers hit historic church in Peshawar -- Indian Express
Suicide bombs kill 78 outside Peshawar Church -- International News
In deadliest attack on Pakistani Christians, Taliban kill 70 in historic Peshawar church -- Times of India
Church bombed in Pakistan's worst attack on Christians -- The Australian/AFP
Pakistan church blast kills dozens -- BBC
Suicide bombers kill 60 Christians outside Pakistan church -- The Telegraph

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