More than 200 people were wounded in the blast in the main northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest in a surge of attacks by suspected insurgents this month. The government blamed militants seeking to avenge an army offensive launched this month against al-Qaida and Taliban in their stronghold close to the Afghan border.
The bombing was the deadliest since explosions hit homecoming festivities for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi in October 2007, killing about 150 people. Bhutto was later slain in a separate attack.
Wednesday's bomb destroyed much of the Mina Bazaar in Peshawar's old town, a warren of narrow alleys clogged with stalls and shops selling dresses, toys and cheap jewelry that drew many female shoppers and children in the conservative city.
The blast collapsed buildings, including a mosque, and set scores of shops ablaze. The wounded sat amid burning debris and parts of bodies as a huge plume of gray smoke rose above the city.
Crying for help, men tried to pull survivors from beneath wreckage. One man carried away a baby with a bloody face and a group of men rescued a young boy covered in dust, but others found only bodies of the dead. A two-story building collapsed as firefighters doused it with water, triggering more panic.
Just looking for honest opinons from all belief or non belief standpoints
no offense meant to anyoneDo you think this was religiously motivated?
ONLY a religion could motivate human beings to perform such acts of destruction.
TLDRDo you think this was religiously motivated?
IDK
These people are martyrs for their religious beliefs.Do you think this was religiously motivated?
islamic terrorism is often religiously motivated
Too long, did not read. But I think so
Yes - The religion of being evil and selfish!
if hillary has anything to do with it or about it, I'm sure it is not religiously founded. it's all for power and money and politically motivated.
Wow religious people are HIGHLY MOTIVATED
because only religion can motivate u to cause someone to do that
It was religiously motivated. The savage islam religion will never get the blame.
No, religion would never condone this, I don't care what nonsense anyone spews. Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, etc do not advocate violence. This is an example of a band of idiots taking things too far, where hate is fueling their actions, and they claim it is in the name of religion so they might recruit some more idiots.
Look, these attacks are not courageous. They are cowardly. Like Hilary said they are cowards.
No religion can make anyone willingly kill innocent people.
These people simply need to be left alone. The U.S should cut our losses and walk away from these people's business.
They are brainwashed and beyond the point of no return.
I just saw the news and it frustrates me
Yes, but then so was the Spanish Inquisition, the Irish Civil War, the War of the Roses, and the murder of Arab Christians by European Christians Crusaders.
I think to a large part people use religion to fuel and justify existing hatreds. I forget who said this but it's appropriate in this context..."Good men will do good and evil men will do evil. But for a good man to do evil, that takes religion."
How is Muslim killing Muslims religiously motivated. Its obviously political.
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