At least 101 people are dead and more than 225 others injured in Pakistan after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Peshawar on Monday Jan. 30.
Rescue workers carry the remains of the blast victims from the debris of a damaged mosque after a blast inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on January 30, 2023. (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
More than 300 worshippers, mostly police officers, had been inside.
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A faction of the Pakistan Taliban initially claimed responsibility for the attack, but it was later denied by a group spokesman.
A suicide blast at a mosque inside a Pakistan police headquarters was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief said, as rescue efforts ended with the death toll standing at 100. (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
The blast caused the roof and walls of the mosque to collapse, trapping people underneath.
Rescue workers conduct search and rescue operation from the debris of damaged mosque a day after a blast inside the police headquarters in Peshawar. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The attack, which took place in an area with many important government and military buildings, is one of the deadliest in Pakistan in recent years.
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Officials say they are investigating how the suicide bomber got through multiple security points to reach the mosque.
A mosque blast that killed 101 people — mostly police officers — in northwest Pakistan this week has put a city long scarred by violence back on edge, residents said. (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
The attack has raised concerns that the Pakistan Taliban could be regaining power after the Afghan Taliban’s takeover of nearby Afghanistan.
Civil society activists carry placards during a protest in Lahore on February 1, 2023, against the mosque suicide blast inside a police headquarters in Peshawar. (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)
Peshawar had been the center of Pakistan’s conflict against the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, until most TTP fighters and other militants were driven out of the region in 2015.
People light candles to pay tribute to the victims of the a mosque suicide blast inside a police headquarters, in Peshawar on February 1, 2023. (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
