Wana,(Pakistan): At least 12 people were killed and many wounded when a bomb exploded in a busy market in Jandola, Pakistan on Thursday, officials said.
The blast hit a hotel and shops in the market. Pakistan officials said that the blast has killed at least 12 people, but a resident said many more people could have died in the explosion.
Villagers in the area said the blast was caused by a missile fired from an unidentified aircraft.
On Thursday, two beheaded bodies of a paramilitary force were found near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.
The two men went missing on Tuesday when they and two colleagues went into Wana town in civilian clothes.
The whereabouts of the other two men were not known, said the member of the force, who declined to be identified.
Many al-Qaeda members fled to the region from Afghanistan after US-led forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001.
In neighbouring North Waziristan, violence erupted on Tuesday when militants clashed with a bandit gang and 15 people were killed.
The militants strung up the bodies of five of the dead bandits and displayed the head of one on a pole.
At the weekend, authorities said an al-Qaeda commander, Abu Hamza Rabia, and four others were killed when bomb-making material stored at their hideout in North Waziristan detonated accidentally last week.
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