PESHAWAR: Death toll in the devastating bombing inside a mosque in Kocha Risaldar area of Peshawar has risen to 63, while five injured are still in critical condition.
According to reports, police and rescue teams reached the spot and statrted a rescue operation. The rescue teams rushed the injured to Lady Reading Hospital, while residents and people of the neighborhood also helped in transporting the injured on their private vehicles.
Police and security teams cordoned off the area and started to collect evidence and the officials declared the state of emergency in the Lady Reading Hospital.
Meanwhile, CCPO Peshawar told that the attackers entered the mosque after an exchange of fire with the police security which also resulted in martydom of one police official and another injured.
