Part of the mosque’s roof and wall structure had collapsed.
Peshawar:
At least 17 people were killed and 80 others were injured in a blast on Monday at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan. The hospital officials gave this information. The incident happened during afternoon prayers in the northwestern city of Peshawar, near the border with Afghanistan.
An AFP reporter at the scene saw rescue workers carrying two bodies into an ambulance. The mosque’s roof and part of the wall had collapsed, and bloodied survivors were limping away from the rubble.
Muhammad Asim Khan, a spokesman for Peshawar’s main hospital, said, “We have received the bodies. This is an emergency situation.”
Last March, an ISIS suicide bomber attacked a minority Shia mosque in Peshawar, killing 64 people in Pakistan’s deadliest terror attack since 2018.
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