Posted on 03/04/2022 12:59:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
A blast struck a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 56 people and injuring another 196, police and hospital officials said.
More than 50 people were injured in the explosion...
The source of the blast is suspected to be a suicide attack, but investigations are ongoing, Peshawar's police chief Muhammad Ejaz Khan told CNN.
There has been no claim of responsibility so far for the attack, one of the deadliest in recent years on Pakistan's Shia minority, which has long been the target of violence by Sunni Muslim Islamist militant groups...
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Pass the popcorn, please.
The religion of peace strikes again.
Europe in 50 years
Has the Ramandan bomb-a-ton began?
Aren’t the Sunni the crazier of the lot?
I keep saying: If we and the rest of civilized huge manatees would simply withdraw from moslem-dominated nations, stop offering any type of support, and just leave them to their own devices, probably within a very short time there would be nothing left of them. They would gleefully kill each other off.
I guess the Muslims got tired of Russia getting all the news coverage for slaughtering innocent civilians.
“Pass the popcorn, please.”
How American of you, viewing others suffer as though it were some stupid movie.
Protesting or celebrating today’s death sentence confirmation by SCOTUS for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? I can’t keep them straight.
When the enemies of my country kill each other I prefer not to interfere with them.
Dead saracens, oh no, I’m so shocked.
Eating their own again are they?
Let’s order a pizza!
Oh, shucks.
Well Iran is Shia and (their government) is obsessed with destroying a country it does not even border, Israel.
That’s what I was thinking. Is it Ramadan already?
The news item from another source:
IS claims responsibility for mosque attack in Peshawar
IANS
The Pioneer
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Peshawar — The Islamic State (IS) of Khorasan has claimed the responsibility of the terror attack on a Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar during the Friday’s prayer, in which at least 56 people killed.
The IS of Khorasan, which is active in the region, has claimed that it was an Afghan suicide bomber who executed the terror attack. The IS has made the claim in a press note.
Apart from 56 fatalities, as many as 194 others have recieved injuries after the alleged Afghan suicide bomber exploded himself during the Friday’s prayer at the mosque.
The Shia mosque, where the explotion took place, reffered as Imam Bargah is located at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar’s Kucha Risaldar area.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan’s Special Assistant Barrister Saif has confirmed that the explosion was a suicide attack.
“There were two offenders who entered the mosque and then engaged in an exchange of fire with the security forces, following which one attacker was killed by the police. An eyewitness identified a person dressed in black as the suicide bomber, saying he entered the mosque, shot and killed the security guard first and then fired five to six bullets at the police. Subsequently, he rushed towards the main hall and blew himself in front of the pulpit.”
Separately, a local person claimed that despite residents urging for tighter security due to a recent hand grenade attack in the area, this suicide bombing was “neither anticipated nor prevented”.
Prime Minister Imran Khan condemned the attack and ordered to provide immediate medical aid for the wounded.
Incidentally, the suicide attack took place a day after DG ISPR Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar denied the reports about former DG ISI Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (recently posted in Peshawar as Corps Commander) networking with opposition members to foil the proposed no-trust movement against the Prime Minister.
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