Police officials said the bomb was planted in a motorcycle parked near the Shia mosque aimed to target Shia worshippers and a temporary bus-stand in Kacha Pakka area on Kohat’s Hangu road.
Kohat District Police Officer Dilawar Bangash told reporters that the explosion was carried out through a remote-controlled device.
“Between four to five kilograms of explosive material was used in the bomb. I can confirm the death of two people and seven people were injured,” he said.
The bomb exploded just as Shia worshipers were coming out of the mosque after offering Zuhr prayers.
The injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital, where officials said the condition of some of the wounded was critical.
The powerful explosion also damaged nearby shops. Kacha Pakka area of district Kohat is the shia populated area of the district.
"Followers of both Sunni and Shi'ite sects pray in the mosque," said police official Gul Ameen Shah.
Pakistan's new government has been under intense pressure to tackle the violence. On Wednesday, the president's security chief was killed in a suicide bomb in the port city of Karachi.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the latest attack. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, seen as the most ruthless Salafi-Wahhabi sectarian group, has targeted Shi'te sites in the past.
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