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Place of attack in Peshawar
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At least 30 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a mosque in Pakistan.
Around 60 other injured were taken to a hospital in the northwestern city of Peshawar, a spokesman for the clinic said on Friday.
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.
The attack took place on a Shiite church.
In predominantly Sunni Muslim Pakistan, Shiite minorities have been repeatedly attacked in the past.
IS and Pakistani Taliban claim terrorist attacks in border region
Since the Sunni militant Islamist Taliban took power in neighboring Afghanistan, attacks in the border region have increased.
In particular, the terrorist militia "Islamic State" (IS) and the Pakistani Taliban claim attacks for themselves.
The border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was long considered a troubled region of Pakistan, but has long been quiet following a military offensive against Islamist terrorist groups in 2014.
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.
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