Suicide bombing at mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar kills at least 30

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By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bombing at a mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 30 people, police and hospital officials said. The death toll is expected to rise substantially as many of the injured are in critical condition, police and hospital officials said. The authorities have not said who may be behind the attack. “We are in a state of emergency and the injured are being shifted to the hospital,” police officer Mohammad Sajjad Khan told Reuters. Mohammad Aasim, spokesman of the Lady Reading Hospital, wh…

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