PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least seven worshippers were killed in a bomb attack in a mosque near the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday night, police said.
A police officer said that some unidentified men threw three hand grenades inside the mosque during prayers at Badabher area, seven kilometers from downtown Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Police officer Ejaz Khan said that 35 people were injured in the attack. Some parts of the mosque were damaged in the blast.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Witnesses said that some 70 persons were offering prayers in the mosque when the terrorists targeted the mosque.
It was the second mosque attack in Pakistan in a day. On Friday afternoon, a suicide bomber blew up himself in a mosque near Darra Adam Khel tribal region, some 30 kilometers from Peshawar, killing at least 67 and wounding over 90.
- 欧美文化:Xinhua Commentary: Exchange of violence only pushes Israel, Palestine farther from peace
- 欧美文化:Over 2,300 cases of India-related coronavirus variant recorded in UK: health secretary
- 欧美文化:U.S., EU to start talks on steel tariffs imposed during Trump administration
- 欧美文化:208 dead, at least 1,500 injured in week of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities: UN
- 欧美文化:Presidential campaigns start in Syria