PESHAWAR
At least four people were killed and another 22 injured in a bomb explosion in a mosque in Pishtakhara village in the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday. The explosion occurred soon after the Friday prayers at the mosque, Capital City Police Officer Liaqat Ali Khan told reporters.
Police officials said unidentified terrorists placed an explosives-packed piece of cloth near the shoe rack along the mosque’s boundary wall. Soon after the explosion, senior police officials and volunteers from various organisations rushed to the site.
The injured and dead bodies were taken to Khyber Teaching Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex and Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, where the condition of a number of injured was said to be critical. The CCPO said the bomb was locally-assembled remote controlled devise weighing between 1.5 and two kilogrammes.
To a question, Khan said the explosion might be a reaction to the police’s recent action against militants. “The death toll in the mosque explosion has now risen to four after a seven-year-old boy succumbed to injuries in hospital,” a senior police official told AFP. He said a 10-year-old child was also among the dead.
