Recovery Operation Ends as Death Toll Rises to 95 after Suicide Bombing in Pakistan

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Rescue and recovery operation has ended in Pakistan after a suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar killed at least 95. Fifty-two wounded people remained in hospital, with six in a critical condition, Muhammad Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar told newsmen.

A rescue and recovery operation has ended in Pakistan after a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 95 people, most of them police officials.

 

Kashif Aftab Abbasi, senior superintendent of police operations in Peshawar, told Top Accolade News on Tuesday that more than 225 people were also injured in the blast a day earlier.

 

Fifty-two wounded people remained in hospital, with six in a critical condition, Muhammad Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told newsmen. The vast majority of those killed were police officers, he said.

 

The suicide bombing caused the roof of the mosque to collapse, and rescuers had to remove mounds of debris to recover many of the bodies, authorities said.

 

Reporters in Peshawar, said the operation had largely shifted to recovery.

 

“There has been a ceremonial send-off to those policemen who lost their lives, also funerals taking place across the province, because these policemen came from several districts – so there is mourning across the province,” he said.

 

Meanwhile, questions have grown over how the attacker was able to access the heavily fortified area, which includes the headquarters of the provincial police force and a counterterrorism department, while wearing a suicide vest.

 

That followed “credible intelligence reports” on January 21 that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) planned a wave of attacks in Peshawar and the wider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.