PESHAWAR - A suicide blast at a mosque inside a Pakistan police headquarters was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief said on Tuesday, as rescue...
Shahid Ali, another survivor, said the explosion took place seconds after the imam started prayers.
The head of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province police force, Moazzam Jah Ansari, told reporters that a suicide bomber had entered the mosque as a guest, carrying 10-12kg of “explosive material in bits and pieces”. “Terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a statement.Dozens of slain police officers have already been buried in several mass prayer ceremonies, with coffins lined up in rows and draped in the Pakistani flag while a guard of honour was performed.
Pakistan is already being hobbled by a massive economic downturn and political chaos, ahead of elections due by October. But a security official in Peshawar, who asked not to be named, said on Tuesday that authorities were considering all possibilities.
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