KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 56 people were killed and 194 others injured in a suicide bomb blast in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s Khayber Pakhtonkhwa province on Friday, according to media reports.
Mohammad Asim, a spokesperson for Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), confirmed the casualties, adding that some of the injured were in critical condition.
Officials, who termed the incident a suicide attack, initially said that two attackers were involved. However, CCTV footage released later in the day showed a lone attacker clad in a black shalwar kameez reaching the mosque on foot and brandishing a pistol.
He opened fired on police personnel deployed outside the main entrance for security before running inside. The attacker also opened fire on a man who tried to stop him and managed to enter the mosque where an explosion took place shortly after.
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