More than 50 folks have been injured within the explosion, in line with Mohammad Asim, the spokesperson for Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, the place victims have been being handled.
The supply of the blast is suspected to be a suicide assault, however investigations are ongoing, Peshawar’s police chief Muhammad Ejaz Khan instructed CNN.
There has been no declare of duty to date for the assault, one of many deadliest lately on Pakistan’s Shia minority, which has lengthy been the goal of violence by Sunni Muslim Islamist militant teams, together with the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Thousands have been killed, lots of them Shia Muslims, in sectarian violence in Pakistan, in line with Human Rights Watch and different monitoring teams.
This is the deadliest assault in Pakistan since final August, in line with CNN’s figures.
This is a growing story, extra to observe…