The death toll in the explosion carried out by a suicide bomber at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, has reached 72. Reported by the TV channel. GEOTV.
According to the channel, the city is located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, close to the border with Afghanistan. At the time of the terrorist attack, the mosque on the grounds of the local police station was overcrowded. There may have been as many as 500 people in the mosque at the time of the explosion.
Tehreek-e-Taliban (a banned organization in Russia) Pakistan (Pakistan’s Taliban Movement, TTP linked to the banned Taliban movement in Russia) claimed responsibility for the attack.
“The death toll in the devastating suicide attack on a crowded mosque inside a police station in Peshawar rose to 72 as rescuers removed nine more bodies from the rubble.”
Previously reported About 59 people were killed in the explosion at the mosque.
Source: Gazeta
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