"We have 41 dead in the twin suicide bombing. There are 64 injured," local police chief Dilawar Khan Bangash told AFP by telephone. He said the bombers walked into the crowd wearing burqas. Body parts of the bombers were recovered and most of the victims were members of the Mani Khel and Baramad Khel tribes who had gathered for registration after fleeing fighting in their home district of Orakzai, he said.
Bangash said the first bomber detonated his explosives while displaced people gathered to register and receive relief items. A few minutes later the second bomber blew himself up in the middle of the gathering crowd. Khalid Omarzai, the local chief of administration, also said 41 people died, including Azmat Ali Bangash, a journalist working for local TV channel.
Akhtar Jan, 35, a taxi driver, said he heard a huge blast soon after dropping passengers at the camp. "I rushed to the blast site and put a wounded man into my cab. And when I went to bring another blast victim I heard another blast," he told AFP by telephone from his hospital bed. "I fell unconscious and don't know how I was brought here," said Jan, who received injuries to his head and abdomen. Northwest Pakistan has suffered a major internal displacement of people as a result of Taliban violence and a series of military offensives concentrated on flushing out the armed Islamists from parts of the north-west and tribal belt.