The death toll from Sunday’s bombing in Pakistan has risen to 118 after more bodies were recovered from the debris.
City police chief Liaquat Ali confirmed the toll, saying the body of a child was among those retrieved from the rubble in the Meena market.
The blast triggered a huge fire and gutted shops in the market. The blaze destroyed about half a dozen buildings and rescue teams are still working to remove the debris, three days after the carnage.
Rescuers have found it hard to deploy heavy machinery because of the narrow streets around the market in the conservative Muslim city, which lies on the edge of a tribal belt thick with Taliban and al-Qaeda extremists.
Only two excavators and three tractors were engaged in clearing the area, dumping onto a waiting truck bricks, concrete slabs and twisted iron bars from the devastated buildings, rescuers said.
The city's bomb disposal chief, Shafqat Malik, said a Suzuki van was rigged with more than 150kg of explosives.
