Death toll in Peshawar blast climbs to five

PESHAWAR: The death toll from a blast at a mosque in Chatto Laar, Pishtakhara has risen to five as two critical injured succumbed to their wounds in the evening at hospital, police...

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Death toll in Peshawar blast climbs to five
PESHAWAR: The death toll from a blast at a mosque in Chatto Laar, Pishtakhara has risen to five as two critical injured succumbed to their wounds in the evening at hospital, police informed.

Initially three persons had lost their lives when a remote control bomb, planted besides one of the mosque's pillar exploded soon after the Juma prayers.

Police present at the hospital informed that two more persons have died of their injuries taking the death toll to five with 22 others injured, some critically.