At least 30 worshipers have lost their lives and more than 50 have been injured in a bomb blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in Qissa Khwani bazaar in the Kocha Risaldar area of Peshawar on Friday, police and rescue workers told Geo News.
As per reports, the rescue teams are rushing the injured to hospital, while residents and people of the neighbourhood are also helping in transporting the injured on their motorcycles and cars.
Police and security teams have cordoned off the area and started to collect evidence, the news report said.
The condition of 10 injured people is critical, says the spokesperson of Lady Reading Hospital where all the injured are admitted.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan condemned the deadly attack on the mosque and ordered efforts to provide immediate medical aid for the wounded.
Khan also sought a report on the blast from the authorities concerned. The Peshawar CM Mahmood Khan, too, condemned the blast and sought a report from the Peshawar inspector-general of police.
The chief minister instructed the rescue workers to speed up the rescue operation and ordered provincial cabinet members to monitor the operations.
Meanwhile, CM’s Special Assistant Barrister Saif confirmed that the explosion was a suicide attack, Goe News reported. He said that the militants tried to enter the mosque and then engaged in an exchange of fire with the police upon failure.
However, one of the militants managed to enter the mosque and detonated the suicide jacket, the report said.
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