Blast fears halt Pakistan rescue

Rescue operations have been halted in northern Pakistan where at least 46 people were killed in a series of explosions on Sunday.

At least 46 people died in the explosions

It is feared that unexploded dynamite and detonators may still be buried under rubble.

The blasts, in the village of Gial, are believed to have been caused by explosives used for road building stored at the home of a local contractor.

Rescue officials are waiting for explosives experts to arrive from Islamabad.

Wounded

The BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Islamabad says that the death toll from Sunday's explosions has been revised downwards from earlier reports to 46.

But another 11 people are still missing.

Most of the injured are being treated at hospitals in the nearby town of Chilas, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the city of Gilgit.

On Monday Pakistani state television showed pictures of a six-month-old boy being rescued from the rubble.

The government has appointed a senior judge to head an investigating commission which will question whether the road contractor had been authorised to store such a large quantity of explosives in a residential area.