Suicide Bombing Kills Dozens in Pakistan Mosque
The attack targeted a mosque frequented by police officers in a highly secured part of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
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The attack targeted a mosque frequented by police officers in a highly secured part of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
It was not clear how the bomber was able to slip into the walled compound, which houses the northwestern city of Peshawar’s police headquarters.
Around three dozen people have been killed and scores more wounded in an explosion at a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to officials.
The explosion came in a highly secured part of Peshawar, a provincial capital. It was the worst attack in the country in months.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, said a senior police official, but the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.
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