Suicide bombing at mosque in Pakistan kills 32, targeted police



[1/8] Rescue humans search for survivors under a collapsed roof, after a suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

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• Summary

• Blast befell in a mosque at some point of prayer time
• Most of the casualties were police officers
• No institution has claimed obligation for the blast up to now

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 30 () - A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar killed as a minimum 32 people on Monday, the present day assault concentrated on police in this northwestern metropolis where Islamist militants stay lively.

Hospital officers stated at least 147 humans were wounded, with lots of them in important scenario.

Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif called the blast a suicide assault. There have been at least 260 people in the mosque, police real Sikandar Khan brought.

No one has claimed duty for the bombing, which ripped through the mosque all through midday prayers, inflicting a wall to fall apart on top of worshippers. The constructing is placed internal a distinctly fortified compound that consists of the headquarters of the provincial police pressure and a counter-terrorism department.

"We're getting that the terrorist turned into repute in the first row," Defense Minister Khawaja Asif instructed Geo TV.

Footage from government broadcaster PTV confirmed police and citizens scrambling to do away with debris from the blast net page and sporting wounded people on their shoulders.

The attack have become the city's worst in view that March ultimate year, even as a suicide bombing at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the path of Friday prayers killed at the least fifty eight people and injured almost two hundred. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for that bombing.

Peshwar, which sits at the edge of Pakistan's tribal districts bordering Afghanistan, is often centered with the aid of the usage of militant businesses, which consist of the Pakistani Taliban.

The institution, referred to as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is an umbrella of Sunni and sectarian Islamist organizations that need to overthrow the authorities and replace it with their own emblem of Islamic governance.

The TTP has stepped up assaults as it ended a so-known as peace deal final 12 months with the Pakistani authorities, which modified into facilitated with the aid of Afghan Taliban.

TTP has staged commonplace attacks centered on police inside the last few months. In December, Islamist militants seized a counter-terrorism centre within the northwestern and took hostages to negotiate with authorities government.

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