At least 30 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a mosque in Pakistan. About 60 other injured were taken to a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar, a spokesman for the clinic said. According to a local police chief, two armed suicide bombers fought their way into the mosque, where they detonated their bombs. Further details were initially unclear, including who was responsible for the attack.
Since the militant Islamist Taliban took power in neighboring Afghanistan, attacks in the border region have recently increased. In particular, the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) and the Pakistani Taliban have recently claimed responsibility for attacks.
The border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was long considered a region of unrest in Pakistan, but after a military offensive against Islamist terrorist groups in 2014, the situation there was considered calm for a few years. In autumn 2020, many people were killed and more than 100 injured in a similar attack in a Koran school in Peshawar. At that time, the IS was suspected. Residents in Peshawar recall the brutal attack by Pakistani Taliban, who killed more than 150 people, mostly children, in a school in Peshawar in 2014.