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Balochistan Bleeds

The death toll from Friday's blasts targeting civilians and security personnel in Quetta and Parachinar has risen to 63, with nine more people injured in the twin Parachinar blasts passing away overnight.
More than 200 injured are being treated in hospitals.
Most casualties happened in Parachinar — 50 dead and about 200 wounded — because a second bomb attack was timed to target people rushing to help victims injured in a prior explosion.

Eyewitnesses in Parachinar said the first blast, which took place in the busy Turi Market where people were shopping for Eid, occurred minutes after an Al Quds Day rally had started dispersing at some distance from the crime scene.
Muhammad Hussain, who sustained injuries in the incident, told reporter that he was heading for his poultry shop after the conclusion of the Al Quds rally when the first blast took place. Another explosion shook the area soon after a large number of people rushed to the site to help the injured.
“I lost consciousness after the second blast and later found myself on a hospital bed,” Hussain said.
The medical superintendent of Parachinar's district headquarters hospital, Dr Sabir Hussain, said that army choppers airlifted 11 seriously injured people to Peshawar. He said some bodies might also have been taken away from the blast site.
The town, which has been caught in the crosshairs of militants for the past several years, sank into paralysis as communication links were broken soon after the incident.
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