Bomb death toll rises to 29
Police said the death toll from an overnight car bombing rose to 29 in north-west Pakistan, unnerving a region already dangerously on edge following the attacks on India's commercial capital.
Mohammed Khan, a local police official, said about 100 people were also wounded 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.
The provincial police chief, Malik Naveed Khan, says the bomb seemed to contain chemicals designed to spread fire.
