Two suicide bombings at a centre for people displaced by a Pakistani military offensive against militants killed at least 38 people and wounded 65 today, an official said.
The first of two male attackers, disguised as a woman in an all-enveloping burqa dress, was followed seconds later by a teenager who blew himself up, said local commissioner Khalid Khan Omarzai.
"It was huge and caused most of the deaths," he said of the second explosion. They struck as about 300 people displaced by fighting were registering at an office in the village of Kacha Pakha in the northwest of the country, hoping to get food items, officials said.
"The blasts were so powerful that the limbs of people scattered throughout the area.
A group affiliated with Pakistan's Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The military says its latest operations, in the Orakzai and Khyber and Kurram regions, have killed hundreds of militants, tolls that were not possible to confirm independently.
Reuters