Its been verified by police in pakistan. It shows the build up to that blast which killed 35 people. Weve paused the video before the moment of the explosion. The tribal area of bajaur is near pakistans border with afghanistan. Its not immediately clear what caused the explosion, though Police Suspect it was a suicide bomber. No organisation has admitted carrying out the attack. With more on this, lets cross to the newsroom and our south asia editor, Anbarasan Ethirajan. It broke in the last few hours. What more can you tell us about the explosion and about the motive of the attack . About the explosion as about the explosion you have seen in the footage showed as you have seen in the footage we showed a short while ago, hundreds of people had gathered from the party called thejui, they had a meeting in a town very close to the border with afghanistan and suddenly, you see this ball of fire. And now police are saying that they have evidence to suggest it was a suicide attack. It is not
party called thejui, they had a meeting in a town very close to the border with afghanistan and suddenly, you see this ball of fire. and now police are saying that they have evidence to suggest it was a suicide attack. it is not immediately clear which group carried out this attack but what we know is hundreds of people have been injured, more than 200 and the number of deaths is also likely to rise because of the condition of some of the injured is said to be critical. officials said they had transported most of the injured people to various hospitals. we saw footage of army helicopters carrying some seriously wounded people do bigger hospitals in the city of peshawar, and the prime minister has strongly condemn this incident and ordered an investigation to find out how in such a public meeting brother was security, how this was allowed