At least 49 people have been killed in a bombing in a crowded area of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.More than 100 people have also been injured in the suspected suicide bombing.Officials said a vehicle laden with explosives had been detonated near the city's Khyber Bazaar. Friday's explosion was the latest in a series of recent bombings across north-western Pakistan.It comes as the Pakistani army prepares an operation against the Taliban in the tribal region of South Waziristan.TV footage showed what appeared to be the charred frame of a bus destroyed by the explosion. Many of the victims of the blast were thought to be passengers and police said this included a number of children. The remains of other vehicles were strewn in the road. It is the deadliest attack in Pakistan since March when a suicide bomber destroyed a crowded mosque in Jamrud, killing at least 50 people. But doctors at the Lady Reading hospital, close to the blast site, warned that the toll could rise as many of the injured were in a critical condition.
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