Suicide blast in Peshawar mosque claims at least 30 lives, injures more than 80 - Pakistan
Gunfire was heard prior to a blast in Peshawar's Kocha Risaldar area; police and rescue officials are at the site.
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Gunfire was heard prior to a blast in Peshawar's Kocha Risaldar area; police and rescue officials are at the site.
A bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan and killed about 45 worshippers and 65 others.
A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 45 worshippers and wounding some 65 others, many of them critically, police said.
No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bombing was the latest act of violence in majority Sunni Muslim Pakistan, where minority Shiite Muslims have come under repeated attacks.