A suicide bomber has struck a crowded Pakistan mosque, killing 43 people and wounding more than 100 during Ramadan prayers, in the country's deadliest attack for three months.
ISLAMABAD - Blood was splattered across the mosque's main hall and walls, while the building's doors and windows were destroyed and its ceiling fans mangled by the blast, according to reports. Ball bearings used in the suicide vest were also scattered across the mosque in Jamrud town, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from Peshawar, the main city in the Khyber tribal district where much of the violence in Pakistan is concentrated. The attack came as a US drone strike killed four militants in the northwestern tribal area of Pakistan, which where US special forces killed Osama bin Laden on May 2. More than 500 people had packed into the mosque. A senior official from the Khyber tribal district administration Sayed Ahmed Jan said that the bomb had exploded seconds after the main prayer ended. The deputy chief of the semi-autonomous administration said that 43 people had been killed and 117 wounded. Full Story>>
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