56 killed, 194 injured in Pakistan mosque blast

A suicide bombing took place at a Shia mosque in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan.

Peshawar:

The death toll in Friday’s suicide attack on a Shia mosque in northwestern Pakistan’s Peshawar city has risen to 56, a hospital official said. A hospital official gave this information.

Muhammad Asim Khan, spokesman for Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, said: “50 of those injured are in critical condition.”

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