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Blasts kill 39 in Pak hotel, supermarket

AFP, Peshawar
Twin bomb blasts minutes apart ripped through a crowded supermarket-hotel complex killing 39 people and injuring over 80 in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar late Saturday.
The attack, one of the deadliest since US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, hit the Khyber Super Market area, which includes residential flats for students, shops, a fruit juices kiosk and a hotel.
At around 11:30pm local time, a first explosion lured in onlookers and emergency services before a second more powerful blast, believed to be from a suicide strike, went off. The second explosion was heard for miles around.
"Death toll has risen to 39 in the blasts as four wounded people died in hospital," senior local police official Ijaz Khan told AFP, adding that the explosions were just four minutes apart.
The blast was initially blamed on Pakistan's Taliban but aTaliban spokesman yesterday denied responsibility.
Those killed included two journalists working for local English-language newspapers Pakistan Today and The News.
"The first blast was quite small but as people gathered close to the site of the explosion, the second one, which was real big one, went off," said the official.
More than 4,500 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other Islamist extremist networks based in the nearby tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.
"The first blast was triggered by a timed device planted in the bathroom of the hotel while a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up near the hotel," bomb disposal chief Shafqat Malik told AFP.
"We have found head and some other body parts of the bomber from the attack site," Malik added.
The attacks badly damaged six shops and the hotel. Crockery and furniture of the damaged hotel and pieces of human flesh were scattered outside.
Private TV channels showed ambulances zooming in and out taking away dead bodies and injured people.
"I was parking my car near the hotel when the first blast took place. I rushed to the hotel to see nature of the explosion when second bomb went off with a big bang," local journalist Safiullah Mehsud told AFP
Mehsud, who sustained injuries to his head and legs, said he felt his body going up in the air after the second explosion and was knocked unconscious.
The latest violence came hours after visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on Pakistan to eradicate militant sanctuaries at "detailed" talks about a peace process with the Taliban that inaugurated a joint peace commission.
Nearby Peshawar is the gateway to Pakistan's rugged northwest tribal region, which is known as the country's premier stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda linked militants, and bomb attacks are common.