The severed head of a suicide bomber discovered on the website of the explosion of a mosque in Pakistan

Peshawar:

Reduction officers on Tuesday recovered the severed head of the suspected suicide bomber who they are saying blew himself up inside a mosque full of worshipers throughout Monday afternoon prayers within the high-rise space. safety within the restive metropolis of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan.

The dying toll from the bomb blast rose to 93, with 221 folks significantly injured, police officers stated, whilst rescue operations continued to retrieve the remaining our bodies from the rubble.

The highly effective blast occurred contained in the mosque within the space of ​​the police traces round 1.40pm when worshipers, which included police, military and bomb squad personnel, provided Zuhr (afternoon) prayers.

The suicide bomber who was current within the entrance row blew himself up, inflicting the roof to break down on worshipers, officers stated.

Capital Police Officer (CCPO) Peshawar Mohammad Aijaz Khan informed Geo TV that the blast seemed to be a suicide bomber and the suspected suicide bomber’s head was discovered on the website in Peshawar, the provincial capital. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

“It’s doable that the attacker was already current within the police traces earlier than the explosion and that he used an official car [to enter]“, he informed Geo TV.

Khan added that the precise nature of the blast shall be identified as soon as the rescue operation is full.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s appearing chief minister, Muhammad Azam Khan, introduced a day of mourning within the province on Tuesday following the assault.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), often called the Pakistani Taliban, claimed duty for the suicide assault, saying it was a part of a revenge assault on TTP commander Umar Khalid Khurasani, who was killed in Afghanistan final August.

A police official stated a part of the mosque had collapsed and several other folks had been believed to be underneath it.

The TTP, established in 2007 as an umbrella group for a number of terrorist teams, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its terrorists to stage assaults throughout the nation.

The group, believed to be near al-Qaeda, has been accused of a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on navy bases and the bomb in 2008 in opposition to the Marriott resort in Islamabad.

In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban attacked the Military Public College (APS) within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing not less than 150 folks, together with 131 college students.

The assault despatched shockwaves internationally and was extensively condemned.

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