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Pakistan mosque blast 'kills 15' Pakistan mosque blast 'kills 20'
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A bomb has exploded at a religious gathering of Shia Muslims in north-eastern Pakistan, killing at least 15 people, police say. At least 20 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated a device at the entrance to a Shia mosque in north-east Pakistan, police say.
Dozens of others were injured in the blast near the capital, Islamabad, officials said. Dozens of others were injured in the blast south of the capital, Islamabad.
According to early reports, the explosion occurred outside a mosque in the Chakwal area of Punjab province. A religious congregation attended by upwards of 1,000 people was taking place at the mosque in the Chakwal area of Punjab province.
It comes a day after eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on an Islamabad security base. A day earlier eight paramilitary soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on an Islamabad security base.
"A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of Imambargah (mosque) where a religious gathering was taking place," police official Chaudhry Zulfiqar told AFP news agency. Nadim Hasan Asif, a top regional security official, said the bomber "was stopped at the entrance (to the mosque) and pushed himself in and exploded," AP news agency reported.
He said police at the gate tried to stop the attacker going inside, where about 1,200 people had gathered. Another official, provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah told AFP: "The bomber was intercepted at the entrance otherwise he could have caused large-scale casualties."
Eyewitnesses described the bomber as a male teenager dressed in black.
A doctor at a nearby hospital said more than 60 people were injured and that some of them were in a critical condition.
It is not clear who was behind the latest attack but analysts say it appeared to be sectarian in nature.
Pakistan has a long history of tit-for-tat attacks by militants from the majority Sunni and minority Shia communities and thousands of people have been killed, correspondents say.
Last month, a suicide bomber killed 48 people and wounded many others at a mosque near the Afghan border in the worst such attack to strike Pakistan this year.