Pakistan: Mastung bomb leaves at least 50 dead and numerous injured
A suicide assault in Pakistan has left at least 50 people dead and more than 50 injured, according to authorities.
On Friday, as people gathered to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, an explosion took place close to a mosque in the Balochistan region of the southwest.
In Balochistan, authorities have proclaimed a state of emergency. The incident has not yet been assigned a perpetrator.
In the meantime, a different explosion occurred in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa next to a mosque in Peshawar City.
Police said a number of people may be trapped under debris after the top of the mosque in Hangu, close to Peshawar, fell. The exact number of fatalities is still unknown.
According to local authorities, the mosque in Hangu is a component of a police compound with a 40–50 person capacity.
footage from the scene in the Balochistan city of Mastung showed villagers and emergency personnel rescuing the injured.
Abdul Khaliq Sheikh, the police chief of Balochistan, stated that the explosion was a suicide bombing. He claimed that a senior police officer died while attempting to subdue the assailant.
Sarfraz Bugti, Pakistan's interior minister, referred to the explosion as a "very heinous act" and denounced what he called "the terrorist attacks" in Hangu and Balochistan.
The largest region of Pakistan, Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has regularly been attacked by armed groups including the Islamic State and Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban.
The TTP, however, denied responsibility for the explosion on Friday and stated in a statement that such an assault was against its standards.
Earlier last month, an explosion in the same neighborhood injured at least eleven people, among them a well-known Muslim leader.
At a rally of a religious political party in the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in July, a suicide bomber killed around 40 people.
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