Pakistan suicide bombing kills 102
<p>People carry an injured person from the spot of bombing in Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand on Friday, July 9, 2010. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck outside a government office Friday in the region where Pakistan's army has fought the Taliban, killing scores of people and left many injured, officials said.</p>
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll from twin suicide bombings in Pakistan jumped to 102 with 115 people wounded early today, making it the deadliest attack this year in the country.
Authorities continued to remove debris from the site of the attack in the village of Yakaghund in a northwest tribal region, after two bombers struck seconds apart Friday near a government office.
One of the bombs appeared fairly small but the other was huge, officials said. At least one bomber was on a motorcycle.
The attackers detonated their explosives near the office of Rasool Khan, a deputy Mohmand administrator who escaped unharmed. The tribal elders, including those involved in setting up militias to fight the Taliban, were in the building, but none was hurt, according to Mohmand chief administrator Amjad Ali Khan.
Video footage showed dozens of men searching through piles of yellow brick and mud rubble for survivors. Women and children were among the victims.
Mohmand is one of several areas in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt where Taliban and al-Qaida members are believed to be hiding.
Abdul Wadood, 19, was sitting in a vehicle at the time of the bombings.
"I only heard the deafening blast and lost consciousness," said Wadood, who was being treated for head and arm wounds in Peshawar, the main city in the northwest, about 15 miles away. "I found myself on a hospital bed after opening my eyes. I think those who planned or carried out this attack are not humans."
Some 70 to 80 shops were damaged or destroyed, while damage to a prison building allowed 28 prisoners - ordinary criminals, not militants - to flee, said Rasool Khan, who gave the casualty figures.