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At least 61 people have been killed by a suicide bombing that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan.

RIYADH — Muslim countries and organizations strongly denounced the bomb attack on a mosque in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, killing and injuring scores of worshippers on Monday.

A spokesman for the main hospital in Peshawar said the toll had risen to 89 as more bodies arrived from the scene.

The attack happened Monday during afternoon worship in the provincial capital of Peshawar, close to areas along the Afghan border where militancy has been steadily rising.

The death toll from a suspected suicide bomb that ripped through a mosque in northwestern Pakistan Monday has risen to at least 92, marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country in years as it faces what one analyst described as “a national security crisis.”

Death toll of Monday's suicide blast in a mosque in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has risen to 100 on Tuesday with over 200 others injured, hospital sources said.

At least 32 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The blast happened when the mosque was packed with worshippers and more than 150 people were injured.

At least 32 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The blast happened when the mosque was packed with worshippers and more than 150 people were injured.

A blast tore through a mosque in the neighbourhood of Afghanistan's interior ministry in Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman said.

A leading pro-Taliban cleric is among 18 people killed in a blast outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat.