Posted on 03/04/2022 5:28:46 AM PST by dynachrome
At least 30 people were killed and 80 wounded in a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque on Friday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, where rescuers frantically ferried the dead and wounded from the scene.
One witness saw the attacker enter the mosque before Friday prayers and open "fire with a pistol", picking out the worshippers "one-by-one".
He "then blew himself up", Ali Asghar said.
The attack comes on the first day of a cricket Test match in Rawalpindi -- around 190 kilometres (120 miles) to the east -- between Pakistan and Australia, who haven't toured the country in nearly a quarter of a century because of security concerns.
Muhammad Ali Saif, a spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government, told AFP "more than 30" were killed and some 80 others wounded in the blast near Peshawar's Kocha Risaldar, a similar distance west of the capital Islamabad.
"It was a suicide attack," he said.
An AFP reporter saw body parts strewn at the site, where desperate family members were held back by police. The explosion blew out the windows of nearby buildings.
"I saw a man firing at two policemen before he entered the mosque. Seconds later I heard a big bang," said witness Zahid Khan.
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Sunni vs Shia.
Nobody cares.
Prayers that Israel is on high alert
Peshawar is majority Pashtun (tribe in Pakistan and Afghanistan). It is either in or very close to the Pashtun tribal autonomous area which is very close to the border with Afghanistan, and a major source of shop made weapons, which are famous around the world.
There is a treaty which prevents Pakistan from stopping the manufacture of firearms in the tribal area.
If the last two people on Earth are both muslims, one will murder the other for not being muslim enough.
Precisely the reason so many of us at my church carry at every event.
This is a perfect example of why we need to stop meddling in the Muslim areas of the world. They will eventually finish each other off.
Kinda like Chicago.
Isn’t that how Achmed died?
My kind of story. They should all consider suicide.
A bit of unrelated filler text here - but it does make the reader wonder... after a quarter-century of avoiding the area, what convinced the Australians that it was now safe to finally return? No more dangerous than remaining within reach of their own government, perhaps?
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