PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Multiple blasts killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens in two Pakistani cities on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam’s holiest month, as officials warned the toll could rise. Parachinar was the location of the first major militant attack in Pakistan in 2017, a bomb in a market which killed 24 people in January and was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban. In March a second Taliban attack killed a further 22 people. The twin blasts in Parachinar followed a bombing earlier in the day in southwestern Quetta, capital of the insurgency-wracked Balochistan province, that killed at least 13 people. Officials at the city’s Civil Hospital said at least 13 people were killed and around 20 injured, mostly by shrapnel.

Source: New Strait Times June 23, 2017 15:11 UTC