Pakistan: Bomb blast in a mosque again in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Peshawar: Four people including a senior cleric were injured in a bomb blast during Friday prayers in a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of north-western Pakistan. Police has given information about this. District Police Officer Asif Bahadar said that a blast took place in Maulana Abdul Aziz Mosque in South Waziristan, in which Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam district chief Maulana Abdullah Nadeem and others were injured.

Police reached the spot
The officer said that this explosion was planted in the stage built in the mosque for the cleric to give a sermon. He said that the rescue team immediately reached the spot and the injured were taken to the district hospital of Wana. The officer said, “Police has also reached the spot and is collecting evidence.”

Blasts have happened in mosques earlier too
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, mosques have been targeted earlier too, especially during Friday prayers. On this day a large number of worshippers gather in mosques. Last month, six people, including JUI-S leader Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani, were killed and 15 injured in a suicide blast at the Darul Uloom Haqqaniya madrassa in the province.