Pakistani police and hospital officials said that at least seven were killed and more than 80 wounded in a bomb explosion, which occurred today, Tuesday, at a religious institute in Peshawar.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing in the northwestern city near the border from Afghanistan.
A police officer, who requested anonymity, said, “Unidentified people put explosives in a plastic bag.”
Peshawar Police Commander, Muhammad Ali Jandapur, told “Reuters” that the bomb contained up to six kilograms of explosive materials.
Although the number of attacks decreased in the city and in Pakistan in general in the past few years, this year it increased the security forces in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where Peshawar is located as the capital of the region.
And the “Taliban – Pakistan” movement claimed responsibility for some of the attacks, but the armed movement issued a statement saying that it condemned the bombing today, Tuesday, and denies its involvement in it.
And Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and the injured through a tweet on the social networking site “Twitter”. He said, “I want to reassure my people that we will make sure that the terrorists responsible for this barbaric attack are brought to justice as soon as possible.”
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