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Pakistan Says Peshawar Mosque Bomber Wore Police Uniform, Breached Security On Motorbike


The bombing at a mosque in Peshawar on January 30 was the deadliest to hit the northwestern Pakistani city in a decade.
The bombing at a mosque in Peshawar on January 30 was the deadliest to hit the northwestern Pakistani city in a decade.

The suicide bomber who killed more than 100 people at a mosque in a police compound in Peshawar this week wore a police uniform and entered the high-security area on a motorbike, a Pakistani provincial police chief said. The bomber behind the attack has been identified as a member of a militant network, the police chief of Khyber Pashtunkhwa Province, Moazzam Jah Ansari, told reporters without giving further details. The bombing was the deadliest in a decade to hit Peshawar, a northwestern city that has suffered decades of Islamist militant violence. To read the original story by Reuters, click here.

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