Bomb near mosque in northwest Pakistan kills at least 22, wounds dozens

Record ID: 645238

  • Title: Bomb near mosque in northwest Pakistan kills at least 22, wounds dozens
  • Date: 31st March 2017
  • Summary: PARACHINAR, PAKISTAN (MARCH 31, 2017) (REUTERS) SOLDIERS ASKING PEOPLE TO MOVE AWAY FROM BLAST SCENE WHERE CROWD OF PEOPLE HAVE GATHERED MAN HOLDING PIECE OF ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE
  • Embargoed: 14th April 2017 16:16
  • Keywords: Pakistan blast aftermath wounded mourning protests Islamist militants mosque Taliban
  • Location: PARACHINAR AND LAHORE, PAKISTAN
  • City: PARACHINAR AND LAHORE, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: Bombing (non-military),Conflicts/War/Peace
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016AAKWNB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: QUALITY AS INCOMING
    EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART OF THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    A bomb apparently targeting a mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Parachinar killed at least 22 people on Friday (March 31) and wounded 70 in an attack claimed by the Pakistani Taliban.
    The explosion in a remote area bordering Afghanistan came as people gathered for Friday prayers near the women's entrance of a Shia mosque in the central bazaar, the latest in a series of attacks across Sunni-majority Pakistan this year.
    The banned Islamist militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), often referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, said the blast was part of its operation Ghazi, named after a radical Islamist leader killed by Pakistani security forces in 2007.
    Following a string of earlier incidents this year, the latest attack adds to fears of an increase in sectarian violence in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state of some 200 million people.
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