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31/01/2023 06:06 GMT : Pakistan mosque blast: more than 80 dead

Pakistan mosque blast: more than 80 dead

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No group has said it did the attack but it has been linked to the Pakistan Taliban.

A hospital in the north-western city of Peshawar in Pakistan has said 83 people died after a bomb that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque.

In Pakistan, the prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has visited the scene of an explosion at a mosque in Peshawar, where the death toll has passed 80.  No group has said it carried out the attack but it has been linked to the Pakistan Taliban.

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