SUICIDE BLAST IN PESHAWAR MOSQUE OF PAKISTAN

(The Quiver) : Peshawar Suicide Blast on Friday ,claimed the lives of 30 people and more than 50 people are injured in the blast . Pakistan-based news agency GeoNews reported about  this undesirable incident that occured  today in Pakistan .

The blast occurred in the Qissa Khwani bazaar in the Kocha Risaldar area of Peshawar.

The eyewitness said that people were praying in all the floors of the multi-storeyed mosque when a terrorist entered there , blew himself in front the pulpit,  after this explosion the blast bodies were seen strewn about inside the mosque.

“He quickly entered the mosque’s main hall and blew himself up in front of the pulpit. Following this, there were bodies and injured people lying everywhere,” the eyewitness was quoted as saying by news agency GeoNews.

One of the locals residing in the area told the news agency that a few days earlier a miscreant lobbed a hand grenade in the area but the pleas of getting security in the area were ignored.

The news report also said that all injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital and 10 people among the injured were in a critical condition.

Peshawar chief minister Mahmood Khan condemned the arrest. His aide Barrister Saif said that terrorists tried to enter the mosque but were stopped by the police following exchange of gunfire. However, one of the terrorists entered the mosque and detonated the suicide vest. One policeman died in the initial exchange of gunfire, news agency Dawn reported in a separate news report.

Prime minister Imran Khan also condemned the blast and has ordered an investigation into the terrorist attack.