Funeral prayers were said on Wednesday for about 30 people who died in a suicide attack at a hospital in the town of Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), according to a report in the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Mashriq.

According to the report, thirty people were killed and 20 injured in the suicide attack on Tuesday. People in the area shut down shops and businesses in Dera Ismail Khan as part of three days of mourning, the report added.

According to another report in the Roznama Mashriq, NWFP police chief Malik Navid said that foreign hands were behind the suicide blast in the hospital. The police chief declined to answer a scribe’s query as to why no militants have been arrested for their activities recently.

Source: Roznama Mashriq, Pakistan, August 21, 2008