Greater than 50 individuals had been injured within the explosion, in response to Mohammad Asim, the spokesperson for Peshawar’s Woman Studying Hospital, the place victims had 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 advised CNN.
There was no declare of duty up to now 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.
1000’s have been killed, a lot of them Shia Muslims, in sectarian violence in Pakistan, in response to Human Rights Watch and different monitoring teams.
That is the deadliest assault in Pakistan since final August, in response to CNN’s figures.
It is a growing story, extra to observe…