According to a spokesman for the hospital in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan, at least 100 people have been killed and 57 people injured. The death toll also rose the day after the attack, while the search in the ruins continued. Unclear who is behind it – We have received dead people. It is an emergency situation, local hospital spokesman Muhammad Asim Khan told AFP after the explosion. It was claimed that the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also known as the Pakistani Taliban or TTP, was behind it. A spokesman for the group has denied that they are to blame for the attack, so it is not clear who was behind it. Spokesman Mohammad Khurasani says the TTP does not attack mosques or religious sites. The head of police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Moazzam Jah Ansari, believes a splinter group from the TTP may have been behind the attack. The same is said by an anonymous security source in Peshawar, writes NTB. The attack was a suicide attack. Photo: Muhammad Sajjad / AP Believe police officers were the target A suicide bomber was participating in the afternoon prayer when he detonated the explosive charge, killing many people. The mosque is near several police offices in the city, and several police officers were there to pray this afternoon. Many of those killed are from the police and it is believed that they were the target of the attack, the BBC reports. According to Reuters, 27 police officers have been killed. Police officer Meena Gul tells the AP news agency that he heard shouts and screams after the explosion. He has no idea how he survived. Gul estimates that there were around 150 people inside the mosque when the explosion occurred. There are many injured and killed after the attack on the mosque. Photo: Muhammad Sajjad / AP Another video shared on social media showed the inside of the mosque. Several men walk around the building, and a wall appears to have been involved in the explosion. The prayer carpets on the ground are covered in dust and broken building remains. – Part of the building has collapsed and we believe that several people are under there, said Sikandar Khan in the police shortly after the attack. Condemns the attack On Twitter, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote that he strongly condemns the attack, which he calls a terrorist attack. – My prayers and condolences go to the victims’ families. It is very important that we strengthen intelligence and ensure that the police are equipped to face the terrorist threat, Khan wrote. Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif confirmed that it was a suicide attack. He warns of strong measures against those responsible. He has also declared a national day of mourning. Norway has also condemned the attack. – We condemn today’s heinous attack against the mosque in Peshawar in the strongest possible terms, Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt wrote on Twitter. The last time there was a major explosion in Peshawar was in March last year, when a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in the city killed 56 people. The extremist group IS then claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was the deadliest in Pakistan since 2018.
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