Kamikaze assault in a mosque in Islamabad, at the very least 31 useless | EUROtoday

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Kamikaze assault within the Khadijah Al-Kubra Shiite mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, throughout Friday prayers. The toll is heavy: at the very least 31 useless and greater than 100 injured, as reported by town’s district administration. No group has but claimed accountability for the assault.

Television footage and pictures on social media confirmed police and residents carrying the injured to close by hospitals. Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsin Naqvi, condemned the assault and requested the authorities to make sure the very best medical look after the wounded, who have been arriving at numerous hospitals within the metropolis. While there are not any claims but, suspicion is more likely to fall on militants such because the Pakistani Taliban or the Islamic State group, which has been blamed for earlier assaults towards Shiite devoted, a minority within the nation. Militants incessantly goal safety forces and civilians throughout Pakistan.

In November, a suicide bomber blew himself up exterior a courtroom in Islamabad, killing 12 individuals. The newest assault comes almost per week after the Balochistan Liberation Army carried out a number of assaults within the insurgency-hit southwestern province, killing round 50 individuals. According to the military, safety forces who responded to those assaults additionally killed greater than 200 “terrorists”.