Death toll climbs to 89 in Shabqadar blast

PESHAWAR: The death toll from a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre rose to 89 on Saturday, police said.

Friday's attack in the town of Shabqadar, also wounded around 140 people, 40 of them critically.

"The death toll has risen to 89," district police chief Nisar Khan Marwat told this news agency. "There are five civilians among the dead and four other bodies which had been torn into pieces could not be identified yet," Marwat said.

The death toll was revised from a previous figure of 80.

Friday's explosions took place as newly trained paramilitary cadets, dressed in civilian clothes, were getting into buses for a 10-day leave, police said.(AFP)