Mardan blast: Another victim succumbs to injuries

Deathtoll increases to 37 while more than 70 are injured.

SHERGARH: Another victim of the Shergarh suicide explosion that occurred on Tuesday succumbed to his injuries in Mardan Medical Complex on Sunday increasing the death toll to 37, while more than 70 are injured.

Ajab Khan, who received severe burn injuries due to the impact of the explosion, was admitted in the hospital in critical condition. He was a local leader of the Awami National Party.

Ajab’s funeral prayers were offered in Zohrmandi Mardan and he was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard.



Hundreds attended his funeral including political parties’ activists, relatives and family members.

26 people, including an independent MPA from Mardan, Imran Mohmand died on the spot when a suicide bomber detonated himself during a funeral prayer of a local petrol pump owner, Haji Abdullah.

Over 70 people were reported injured and were brought in at the complex for medical treatment. The doctors described ten of them as severely injured.

Tuesday’s bombing was the deadliest since a blast in Abbas Town area of Karachi on March 3 which killed 50 people.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 24^th, 2013.