Part of the mosque roof and wall construction had collapsed.

Peshawar:

A blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan on Monday killed 17 individuals and wounded one other 80, hospital officers mentioned. The incident occurred throughout afternoon prayers within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar close to the border with Afghanistan.

An AFP reporter on the scene noticed rescue staff carry two useless our bodies away in an ambulance. Part of the mosque roof and wall construction had collapsed, and bloodied survivors had been limping away from the wreckage.

“We have received dead bodies. It’s an emergency situation,” mentioned Muhammad Asim Khan, a spokesman for the principle hospital in Peshawar, including that at the very least 39 wounded had up to now arrived on the facility.

Last March, an ISIS suicide bomber attacked a minority Shiite mosque in Peshawar killing 64 in Pakistan’s deadliest terror assault since 2018.

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