Greater than 50 other people had been injured within the explosion, consistent with Mohammad Asim, the spokesperson for Peshawar’s Woman Studying Medical institution, the place sufferers had been being handled.
The supply of the blast is suspected to be a suicide assault, however investigations are ongoing, Peshawar’s police leader Muhammad Ejaz Khan instructed CNN.
There was no declare of accountability to this point for the assault, one of the crucial deadliest lately on Pakistan’s Shia minority, which has lengthy been the objective of violence through Sunni Muslim Islamist militant teams, together with the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
Hundreds had been killed, a lot of them Shia Muslims, in sectarian violence in Pakistan, consistent with Human Rights Watch and different tracking teams.
That is the deadliest assault in Pakistan since remaining August, consistent with CNN’s figures.
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