New Delhi: An explosion in Pakistan’s religious school has killed at least 8 people and wounded 120 others. The blast occurred at the Speen Jamaat mosque, which also serves as a religious school for local children, Police official said.
“The blast took place in a madrassa where unknown people had planted explosives in a plastic bag and the initial investigation shows that 5-6 kilogrammes of explosive material were used.” Police officials say.
A teacher was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia madrassa when the blast took place.
Peshawar city’s police chief Muhammad Ali Khan confirmed seven deaths and at least 72 wounded in the incident. The injured were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital.
A spokesman for the hospital said it had received seven dead and 70 injured patients.
This attack comes two days after a bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta killed three people.
Television footage of blast shows significant damage to the interior of the mosque’s main prayer hall.
Provincial health minister Taimur Khan Jhagra said “the wounded were being treated at the Lady Reading Hospital, the city’s main government hospital. Our sole focus right now is for the injured patients to be given the best possible care and so that they have the best chance to recover.”
_Vinayak.Barot