At least 56 people were killed and 196 others injured in an explosion at a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Pakistan.
More than 50 people were injured in the blast, according to Mohammad Asim, spokesman for Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital, where the victims were being treated.
Peshawar Police Chief Muhammad Aijaz Khan told CNN that the source of the blast was suspected to be a suicide attack, but the investigation was ongoing.
There has so far been no claim of responsibility for the attack, one of the deadliest in recent years on Pakistan's Shia minority, which has long been subjected to violence by Sunni Muslim Islamist terrorist groups including the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e- target has been. Taliban Pakistan. Thousands of people, many of whom are Shia Muslims, have been killed in sectarian violence in Pakistan, according to Human Rights Watch and other watchdog groups.
According to CNN data, it is the deadliest attack in Pakistan since last August.