ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug 17 (NNN-PPI) – A blast hit a mosque in Pakistan’s south-west Quetta district on Friday afternoon, killing five people and leaving 15 others injured.
Police said, the blast hit people after they finished their Friday prayer, in a mosque in Kuli Qasim area of Kuchlak town of Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province.
According to police, the bomb was planted under a wooden stage used by the imam, and it exploded when people concluded their prayer and were ready to leave.
Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to a hospital. The rescue teams said, the death toll might further rise because several of the injured were in critical condition.
The police Bomb Disposal Squad also reached the site and was investigating how the bomb was detonated.
No group has claimed the bomb attack yet.– NNN-PPI
