PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief said on Tuesday, as rescue efforts ended with the death toll hitting 100.
Plainclothes policemen and laborers remove debris beside a damaged mosque following Monday’s suicide blast inside a police compound in the city of Peshawar, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. AFP PHOTO
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police compound in northwestern Pakistan was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief said on Tuesday, as rescue efforts ended with the death toll hitting 100.