At least 61 individuals had been killed and almost 150 others injured after a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque filled with worshippers throughout afternoon prayers on Monday in the high-security zone in Pakistan’s restive northwestern Peshawar metropolis.

The blast occurred contained in the mosque in the Police Lines space in Peshawar round 1.40 pm when worshippers, which included personnel of the police, military and bomb disposal squad – had been providing the Zuhr (afternoon) prayers. The bomber who was current in the entrance row blew himself up, information company PTI reported citing officers. Among the lifeless and injured, victims had been largely policemen and safety officers.

Meanwhile, a brother of the slain commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Umar Khalid Khurasani claimed that the suicide blast was half of the revenge assault for his brother who was killed final August in Afghanistan. The outlawed TTP, often known as the Pakistani Taliban, has carried out a quantity of suicide assaults in the previous, concentrating on safety personnel.

Peshawar, simply 50 km from the porous border with Afghanistan, remained a frequent goal of militants of terrorists having seen round eight lethal assaults in the final one decade.

Here’s a checklist of terror/bomb assaults in the final decade in Peshawar:

• March 4, 2022
  At least 62 individuals had been killed and 194 had been injured after a suicide blast inside a Shia mosque shook Peshawar’s Kocha Risaldar space. A man entered the mosque earlier than Friday prayers and opened hearth with a pistol. Later, he blew himself up. The Islamic State (IS) had claimed accountability for the explosion.
• Feb 27, 2022
  An explosion killed two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and left a number of others injured in Peshawar’s Bara Road.
• Oct 27, 2020
  An explosion rocked a non secular college in Peshawar, killed not less than seven individuals and wounding 109 others. The blast happened on the Speen Jamaat mosque, which additionally serves as a non secular college for the area people in the town’s Dir Colony space.
• March 16, 2016
  A highly effective bomb ripped by means of a bus carrying authorities workers in Peshawar, killing not less than 15 individuals and leaving 25 injured.
• Jan 19, 2016
  At least 10 individuals had been killed and over 20 wounded when a bomb exploded close to a market in Peshawar. Most of the victims embrace personnel from the Khyber Khasadar Force. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Fazlullah group claimed accountability for the assault.
• Dec 16, 2014
  At least 141 together with 132 kids had been killed after militants from the Pakistani Taliban attacked an army-run college in Peshawar. The assault, which was the Taliban’s deadliest in the nation, was extensively condemned.
• April 29, 2013
  A suicide bomb assault claimed the lives of not less than eight individuals and leaving greater than 40 injured. The bomber detonated the explosives after passing a police automobile.
• March 29, 2013
  At least 12 individuals died and 25 others injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up concentrating on a senior safety forces official close to the U.S. consulate in Peshawar.

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