The death toll from a car bombing in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday has risen to 117 and rescue workers are still searching for more than 60 missing people.
"Three houses and a mosque collapsed and we fear people are still buried beneath the rubble," Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Edhi Rescue Service said by telephone from Peshawar today.
"We are still hoping to find some people alive but the chances are very slim."
The bombing, just hours after U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan, was the deadliest since October 2007, when 170 people died in a suicide attack in Karachi.
It was the latest in a wave of gun and bomb attacks on civilian and military targets that have killed at least 280 people this month.
Taliban militants based in the mountainous tribal regions near the Afghan border have vowed retaliation for a two-week army offensive by 28,000 troops in their stronghold of South Waziristan.
Bloomberg