A Peshawar bomb blast killed at least 56 people and wounded more than 190, medics say


Peshawar (SpotStory): A bombing inside a mosque in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar Qisa Khowani Bazar has killed at least 56 people and wounded more than 190, medics say.

A hospital spokesman said more than 190 people were wounded in the suspected suicide attack on the Shia mosque while Friday prayers were being held.

Some of the injured are said to be in critical condition. No group has yet said it carried out the attack. Thousands of people have been killed, most of them Shias, in Pakistan's sectarian violence in recent years.

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