Tribes raze Taliban houses

Giving details of the casualties, Gul Karim said, “Around 70 dead bodies have been identified while over one dozen have been mutilated badly and are beyond recognition”. He further added that 10 persons were still missing.

He also informed that approximately 300 persons were injured in the suicide blast and over 120 are under treatment in various hospitals.

Meanwhile, almost all the dead persons were laid to rest in their local graveyards. Hundreds of people attended the funerals.

Agencies add: Angry tribesmen traded fire with Taliban militants and demolished their houses in a tribal region after a suicide attack killed at least 80 people at a jirga, residents and officials said on Saturday.