(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque in northwest Pakistan as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 40 people, provincial government officials said.
The blast occurred in Darra Adam Khel, a suburb of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province capital Peshawar.
"It was a suicide attack and there are 40 dead so far," said Shahid Ullah, a senior provincial government official.
At least 60 people had been wounded, said provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain.
Officials at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar said two children were among the dead.
People were leaving the Waali Mosque following Friday prayers when the bomber attacked.
Video from the scene showed screaming women, white-bearded old men in blood-stained clothes and a child being wheeled into the emergency room of a nearby hospital.
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