All Shopping centres, educational institutions and Bazaars remained closed and Lawyers boycotted their professional duties to mourn the deaths on Wednesday in Dera Ghazi Khan city some 100 kilometre west of Multan.
As a suicide car bombing in a busy market killed at least 29 people, including nine women, the latest in a stream of deadly attacks to hit the country. Police are patrolling in the town. The first explosion occurred when a procession of Shiite mourners was ahead of Imam Bargah on February 5,2009 in which 30 people died and 90 injured.
Yesterday's bomb blast had left 29 people dead and 55 injured, 16 of them were critical and they were shifted to NIshtar Hospital Multan. The death toll, which may rise. "The target was the residence of former Punjab Governor and PML-N Punjab Chief Sardar Zulfikar Ali Khan Khosa," said Commissioner Dera Ghazi Khan Hassan Iqbal.
One of the victims Abdul Razzaq came to purchase the goods for the marriage of his cousin. Two teenage brothers Saud Iqbal (12) and Asad Iqbal (15) died when they were working in an auto-workshop. All the 15 dwellings of nearby locality razed to ground.