Twin explosions rocked a busy marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 150 others, officials said, in the deadliest attack to hit the country during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan

Twin explosions rocked a busy marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Friday killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 150 others, officials said, in the deadliest attack to hit the country during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The explosion at the bazaar in Parachinar, the main town of Kurram tribal district on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, sent handcarts flying as shoppers bought food to open their fasts at sunset.

Doctors at the main public hospital said 41 people were killed, and 20 critically wounded among the more than 150 injured.