Death toll from car bombing rises to 29, reax

(6 Dec 2008) 1. Various of scene where the blast took place 2. Mid of media at scene 3. Mid of men carrying their belongings, walking over rubble 4. Tilt up of building damaged by explosion with smoke rising 5. Close of car engine suspected to be part of car bombing 6. Police officer searching for evidence 7. Mid of worker wounded by blast, Salah Zafar 8. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Salah Zafar, hotel worker wounded from explosion: "It was 8 o'clock, I was taking food towards the rooms and I got injured. After that I don't know what happened and I went to hospital." 9. Close of destroyed vehicle 10. Mid of Anyat Shah, police inspector 11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Anyat Shah, police inspector: "There is a lot of rubble here. We have been searching through the night and up till now to find out if there are some dead bodies under the rubble. We found one dead body." 12. Dead body stuck under the rubble 13. Mid of people covering dead body on stretcher 14. Relatives carrying body away, close of grieving relative 15. Various of people reading newspapers spread out on stall 16. Mid of newspapers 17. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Saleem Khan, resident, whose brother is missing following the blast: "My brother was working in the same street (where the blast took place). He was a sanitary worker. He was on the spot 10 minutes before the blast took place, and he is missing up until now." 18. Khan holding up photograph of his missing brother 19. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Mohammad Ali, Peshawar resident: "This administration cannot bring peace. I want to make an appeal to the people (of Peshawar), to come out onto the streets; whenever they (the residents) come onto the streets they (the bombers) will run away." 20. Row of shops, all shut 21. Wide of bazaar STORYLINE: The death toll from an overnight car bombing rose to 29 in northwest Pakistan, unnerving a region already dangerously on the edge following the attacks on India's commercial capital, police and doctors said on Saturday. About 100 people were also wounded on Friday when the bomb went off near Peshawar's famed Storytellers Bazaar, wrecking a Shiite Muslim mosque and a hotel and setting a string of vehicles and shops ablaze, a local police official said. Neither the motive nor the culprits behind the blast were clear. But a provincial government chief said "external forces" could be to blame, a comment understood in Pakistan to mean India. A doctor at a main hospital said on Saturday that they received 20 bodies after the blast, while another nine injured died overnight. He said some of the injured were still in critical condition. Police have said they were still looking for bodies. Police inspector Anyat Shah said they had been searching through rubble throughout the night. Further adding to the tension, a suspected US missile strike reportedly killed three people in a stronghold of the Taliban and al-Qaida near the border with Afghanistan. Escalating violence is destabilising Pakistan's northwest just as the country faces accusations from India that the gunmen behind the carnage in Mumbai last week were trained in Pakistan and steered by militants based there. The provincial police chief said the bomb seemed to contain chemicals designed to spread fire. Pakistan and the United States have stepped up operations against Taliban and al-Qaida strongholds in the northwest to curb mounting attacks launched from there on targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...