Pakistan mosque blast: Rescue operations continued on the second day of the suicide attack on a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. During this, the relief and rescue team was engaged in removing debris and searching for dead bodies at the bomb blast site. Authorities said on Tuesday evening that they had found the severed head of the suspected suicide bomber.
Pakistani officials believe the head found at the scene is that of the fidayeen who killed himself inside a mosque packed with worshipers during midday prayers on Monday in a high-security area in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Peshawar city. was blown away Police officials said the death toll from the bomb blast rose to 93 on Tuesday, while 221 people were seriously injured. Even now the rescue operation is going on to remove the remaining bodies from the debris.
Let us tell you that there was a powerful explosion inside the mosque in the Police Lines area of Peshawar at around 1.40 pm on Monday afternoon. Then the worshipers were offering Zohar (afternoon) prayers there. The Namazis included police, army and bomb disposal squad personnel. Officials say that during that time the suicide bomber present in the front row of the Namazis blew himself up, due to which the roof fell on the Namazis and many people were blown away by the blast.
According to capital city police officer (CCPO) Mohammad Ejaz Khan, the blast was carried out by a suicide bomber. Today, the head of the same suspected attacker has been recovered from the crime scene in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Umar Khalid was attacked to avenge
It is being said in the media report that this attack was carried out by the fidayeen of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The TTP issued a statement saying that it carried out the blast to avenge the killing of its commander Umar Khalid Khurasani. Please tell that the Pakistani army had killed the said TTP commander in August last year.
