Suicide Bombing at Pakistan Mosque Kills At Least 32
A powerful suicide bombing on Monday ripped through a mosque frequented by police officers in a highly secured part of the city of Peshawar, killing at least 44 people and wounding nearly 160, police and hospital officials said, in the worst attack in the country in months.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack broke a period of relative calm in Peshawar, the capital of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan. The northwest has been the site of several attacks on police and military targets in recent months, especially in areas that straddle the border with Afghanistan, and the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for them.
“It was a deafening explosion and I fell on the ground,” said Shabbir Afridi, 40, a government employee who was standing near the mosque at the time of the attack. “When I ran toward the mosque, I saw dust and bodies everywhere.”
The mosque was nearly full, with more than 300 worshipers filling the rows when the blast struck in Police Lines, a heavily guarded neighborhood that is home to several important government and military buildings. An office of the counterterrorism department is nearby, and officials said they were investigating how the suicide bomber managed to breach several security checkpoints to reach the mosque.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suicide-bombing-at-pakistan-mosque-kills-at-least-32/ar-AA16TtxH
= new reply since forum marked as read
