At least 30 worshippers killed in a powerful explosion inside a Shia Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar
No one claimed responsibility for the blast, but both Daesh group and a violent Pakistani Taliban organisation have carried out similar attacks in the region.
A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shia Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, killing more than 30 worshippers and wounding dozens more, many of them critically, police said. Local police official Waheed Khan said the explosion occurred as worshippers had collected in the Kucha Risaldar mosque in Peshawar’s old city for Friday prayers.
Ambulances rushed through congested narrow streets carrying the wounded to Lady Reading Hospital, where doctors worked feverishly. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, but both Daesh group and a violent Pakistani Taliban organisation have carried out similar attacks in the region, located near the border with neighbouring Afghanistan.Shayan Haider, a witness, had been preparing to enter the mosque when a powerful explosion threw him to the street.At the Lady Reading Hospital Emergency department, there was chaos as doctors struggled to move the many wounded into operating theatres.
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