F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Hospital officials on Saturday announced five more deaths in Friday’s bomb attack at a Peshawar mosque located in Qissa Khwani Bazaar. “Five more injured of Peshawar mosque attack succumbed to their injuries,” a spokesperson of Lady Reading Hospital announced on Saturday.
“The death toll in Peshawar blast has reached to 62,” spokesperson said. “Yesterday 57 dead bodies were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital.” “Presently 37 injured of the blast have been admitted at the hospital,” spokesperson added.
The spokesperson of the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar on Friday confirmed that the death toll in the mosque blast rose to 56. He told the media that 194 injured persons have been brought to LRH Peshawar. According to police, the blast occurred inside Jamia Mosque located at Kocha-e-Rasladar Chowk in historic Qisa Khwani Bazar during Friday prayers.
As per police, two attackers entered the mosque after opening fire at the two policemen who were guarding the mosque. As a result, one of the cops was martyred on the spot, while the other was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
Meanwhile, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday filed a first information report (FIR) of Friday’s blast inside a mosque in the Koocha Risaldar area of Peshawar that took lives of 62 people. The FIR was lodged on the complaint of the station house officer (SHO) of the Khan Raziq police station. Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act has been added in the case.
The SHO stated in the FIR that he rushed to the mosque after hearing sounds of gunshots and a loud explosion. The suicide attacker first opened indiscriminate fire after entering the mosque and then blew himself up, he said. Sources said that a special investigation team of the CTD has detained two suspects in connection with the investigation into the blast.
It has recorded statements of those injured in the blast besides checking footage of CCTV cameras installed in different areas of the city. At least 62 worshippers lost their lives and more than 150 others got injured when a suicide attacker blew up himself inside a mosque in the Koocha Risaldar area of the city on Friday.
