During afternoon prayers, a bomb went off at the Peshawar mosque in the Police Lines neighbourhood.
Police in Islamabad increase the death toll from the Peshawar explosion to 34. An explosion that was believed to have occurred inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday caused at least 50 injuries, according to the Dawn.
During afternoon prayers, a bomb went off at the Peshawar mosque in the Police Lines neighbourhood. According to security authorities, the suicide bomber was in the front row during the prayers when he detonated himself. According to a Geo News report, 13 of the injured are in a serious condition, according to hospital sources.
The injured people are being sent to the hospital, said a Lady Reading Hospital (LRC) official in Peshawar. According to Dawn.com, the area has been fully shut off, and only ambulances are permitted access.
On January 22, according to reports from the police and Geo News, there was an explosion next to a Pakistani police car near Peshawar’s Badaber Police Station. According to a report from Geo News, the police said that there were no injuries and that Nasir Khan, the commander of the Shikhamn station, was on patrol when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded next his car.
The explosives were concealed inside a paint can, and the authorities claim that a remote control device was used to trigger the explosion. According to a news report, the police gathered evidence from the crime scenes after the occurrence. Additionally, a bomb disposal team was dispatched to the scene of the incident.
