At least 16 were killed and 23 inured in a suicide blast during Friday prayers at a mosque in northwest Pakistan, officials told news agency. Rescue teams and police rushed to the site of the blast. The bodies and those injured are being shifted to local hospitals.
The blast reportedly occured in the Payee Khan village near the Afghanistan border. The suicide bomber allegedly screamed “Allahu Akbar” and denoted himself inside a packed mosque, according to news agency Reuters.
“The suicide bomber was in crowded mosque, he shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest) and then there was a huge blast,” Naveed Akbar, deputy administrator of Mohmand agency, told Reuters.
Shaukat Khan, another official in the northwestern FATA region, said at least 24 people were wounded. “Many people were gathered inside the mosque where a suicide bomber blew himself up,” he said.
(Sourced from agencies, Feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
