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Pakistan market blast toll doubles to 22

Peshawar : The death toll from a blast Friday in Pakistan's northwest has risen to 22, a doctor at the local hospital told AFP, with dozens more wounded after a car bomb detonated inside a busy market.

"We have 22 dead bodies here at the hospital and 57 injured, including women and children," Moeen Begum, a surgeon at the hospital in Parachinar in Kurram tribal agency, said.

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