ISLAMABAD, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Three more dead bodies were recovered from rubble of the market buildings that collapsed in Wednesday's car bomb attack in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar hours after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the country, pushing the death toll to 120, local media reported Saturday.

    Edhi Foundation rescue operation in-charge Mujahid Khan said that three dead bodies, of a boy, a girl and a man, were recovered from the rubble near the collapsed building of a mosque, pushing the death toll to 120 while some body parts were also recovered, the Daily Times reported.

    He said that a dead body was identified as that of Ahmed, aged 25, a 10-year-old boy and half blown up body of a 9-year-old girl.

    The rescue workers feared that 13 children and 10 other people could have been trapped beneath the debris of the building that collapsed following the blast. He said that earlier 68 persons had reported to them about their missing relatives and nine of them were recovered.

    He said that however, no one contacted them for the remaining missing persons. He said that volunteers from Lahore had also arrived in Peshawar to participate in rescue operation and hoped that rubble of the mosque's building would be cleared by the end of the day.

    Meanwhile, rescue work on the blast site continued and workers kept removing debris of damaged buildings from the area from which smoke was billowing out even on third day of the attack.

    District Coordination Officer (DCO) Peshawar Sahibabad Mohammad Anis confirmed 112 deaths in the blast and said that work to remove the debris was in progress.

    Meanwhile, people are still searching for their loved ones who perished without a trace in the attack.

    The Taliban and al-Qaeda have distanced themselves from Wednesday's deadly market blast in Peshawar, saying "their main targets are the security forces, and not innocent civilians."

    However, Pakistani government officials have said the attack was in revenge for the army's offensive against Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, and that the military campaign would go on.

    The U.S. secretary of state, wrapping up her three-day trip to Pakistan on Friday, has condemned the brutal attack and termed it as "cowardly".

Special Report: Pakistani Situation