CHARSADDA, Pakistan, Nov 10, 2009 (AFP) - A suicide car bomb attack in a busy Pakistan market killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 40 on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.
"We have at present 25 dead. Six of them are children and three are women," Doctor Zulfiqar Ahmad told AFP at the main hospital in Charsadda, just outside the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar.
"There are 42 wounded people. Six of the seriously wounded were taken to hospital in Peshawar," he added.
Senior police official Liaquat Ali confirmed the same death toll.
"It was a suicide car bomb blast. Twenty-five people died and more than 40 were injured -- all of them are civilians," told AFP.
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