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A suicide bombing at a mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 58 people and injured nearly 200, hospital officials said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement, which would make it one of the biggest attacks carried out by the group inside Pakistan.

An armed man, who arrived near the mosque on a motorcycle, opened fire when he was stopped by police, before forcing his way into a crowded hall and detonating his suicide vest, senior police official Haroon Rasheed said.“The armed man entered the mosque and started firing on the worshippers and finally blew himself up,” Rasheed added.

Sardar Hussain, who lost three relatives in the blast, said the mosque was the only place of worship for the Shi’ite community in Peshawar’s old city. Attacks by insurgents had become an almost daily occurrence in Pakistan until the military launched a crackdown on militants in 2014.

 

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