Five police officers were among those killed as the attack happened near a building housing police offices. At least 15 people were killed and 56 injured on Friday after a bomb exploded inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan.
Two armed men attempted to enter the police premises and exchanged fire with officials there, police said. One of the attackers has been killed, the BBC reported.
One of the attackers has been killed, the BBC reported. The attack left the outer wall of the police offices collapsed and the mosque badly damaged. Some of them are in a critical condition. The attack comes a day after a roadside bomb struck a security forces convoy in the northwestern Hangu district and killed six soldiers. Pakistani Taliban have stepped up attacks on police and civilians in recent years.
Government troops also conducted raids in various areas Thursday and killed 10 extremists believed to be members of the Pakistani Taliban, the military and police said. In 2023, a suicide bomber killed 101 people in an attack inside a mosque in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The attacker rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the mosque in Kohat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, said the provincial police chief, Zulfiqar Hameed. Two armed men attempted to enter the police premises and exchanged fire with officials there, police said. Most of the people who were wounded in the bombing were worshippers, a senior rescue official told news agency AFP.
