According to local media, the injured were transferred to a hospital. The area is reportedly cordoned off by the police forces.
According to the Pakistan Today newspaper, the blast occurred in a crowded market in Kurram's capital of Parachinar, adjacent to a mosque. Reportedly, no group has of yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Kurram district is a remote tribal area south of Peshawar. Kurram has a significant Shia population, which has become a target for different Sunni extremist groups in the country, affiliating themselves with Afghanistan's Taliban movement (outlawed in Russia) seeking to turn Pakistan into a Sunni nation.
Huge explosion in Parachinar city, Kurram. eyewitness say it was near the female entrance of the main Imam Bargah. Fatalities feared. #Fata
— Iftikhar Firdous (@IftikharFirdous) March 31, 2017
Only a few months ago on January 21, some 25 people were killed and more than 65 injured when a blast occurred at a marketplace in Parachinar.
#Pakistan #Parachinar — Around 15 shops destroyed in the explosion. https://t.co/YsdOnRagTq
— Terror Events (@TerrorEvents) March 31, 2017
— SH Bangash (@SaulatB) March 31, 2017
@ISPR_Official has sent helicopter to shift critical injured to #Peshawar for their treatment. #Parachinar #ParachinarBlast
— AKhtar Abbas Turi 🌐 (@akhtarturi110) March 31, 2017
In February over 80 people were killed and 100 injured in a suicide bomb blast inside a Sufi shrine in Pakistan's southern city of Sehwan.
