Death toll climbs to 89 in Shabqadar suicide attack

The death toll from a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre in Shabqadar rose to 89 on Saturday, police said. Pakistan's Taliban said Friday's attack in the town of Shabqadar, which also wounded around 140 people, 40 of them critically, was to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of US forces.
"The death toll has risen to 89," district police chief Nisar Khan Marwat told AFP. "There are five civilians among the dead and four other bodies which had been torn into pieces could not be identified yet," Marwat said. The death toll was revised from a previous figure of 80.