FURTHER bomb attacks in Peshawar, in Pakistan, on a market and a bus, have killed 60 people, writes a staff reporter. Police believe that a market-square attack was caused by a car bomb, and that another bomb was hidden in the back of a bus carrying government employees.  

Christians continued to protest across the country last week, after the double suicide-bombing outside All Saints', in the city, which killed about 127 people, including children, and injured 100 more (News, 27 September). The Bishop of Peshawar, the Rt Revd Humphrey Sarfaraz Peter, described the attack, which left many children orphaned and others paralysed, as "devastating".

Militants linked to the Pakistani Taliban have said they carried out the church bombing, but it is un- clear whether they are also linked to the latest blasts.

Prayer vigils were held in Manchester, Bradford, and Huddersfield, and the diocese of Wakefield has launched an emergency appeal to raise money for the families of those killed and injured in the attack. It has already sent £2000 from its own funds.

A Church of Scotland minister lost several family members in the bombing. The Revd Aftab Gohar flew out to Peshawar the same evening, and attended three funerals and a service in the city's cathedral.

Mr Gohar, of Abbotsgrange Parish Church, in Grangemouth, lost his mother, 11-year-old nephew, nine-year-old niece, and two cousins.