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| At least 10 dead in Pakistan mosque 'suicide attack' | |
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| A suspected suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 10 people, police and officials say. | |
| Police say that several people were injured in the blast which took place during Friday prayers. | Police say that several people were injured in the blast which took place during Friday prayers. |
| No group has said they carried out the attack. | |
| Pakistan's Shia minority are the target of frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni militant groups who consider Shias to be heretics. | Pakistan's Shia minority are the target of frequent sectarian attacks from Sunni militant groups who consider Shias to be heretics. |
| Police told the AFP news agency that the mosque and seminary complex is in Peshawar's Gulshan Colony, a Shia-majority area on the outskirts of the city. | |
| It is close to militant strongholds in the north-western tribal belt on the Afghan border. | |
| "It looks like a suicide attack, but we cannot confirm it at the moment because we are still investigating," police official Subhan Khan told AFP. |