Suspects arrested in fatal Pakistan mosque suicide attack that left over 100 dead - CNN

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Several suspects person been arrested successful transportation with Monday’s suicide weaponry blast successful a mosque successful Pakistan’s bluish metropolis of Peshawar that killed much than 100 people.

More arrests volition instrumentality spot pursuing a large constabulary probe into the onslaught that injured different 217 people, Peshawar Police Chief Mohammad Aijaz Khan said.

Authorities are besides investigating however the attacker entered the mosque, Khan added. Families that unrecorded successful the constabulary compound wherever the mosque is located are being interrogated arsenic constabulary cannot regularisation retired that the attacker whitethorn person been helped by idiosyncratic internally.

Police fishy that 12 kilograms (26.5 pounds) of explosives were utilized by a termination bomber, Inspector General of Peshawar Police Moazim Jah Ansari said earlier.

Footage emerged of the destroyed walls of the mosque, with solid windows and paneling pummeled successful the almighty explosion.

Emergency workers searched done the rubble to find survivors successful the aftermath of the explosion, but authorities said “mostly dormant bodies” were being found.

The blast Monday is indicative of the deteriorating information concern successful Peshawar, superior of the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa state that borders Afghanistan and the tract of predominant attacks by the Pakistani Taliban, known arsenic Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP).

There were conflicting claims of who was liable for the attack, with TTP officials Sarbakaf Mohmand and Omar Mukaram Khurasani initially saying the blast was “revenge” for the decease of TTP militant Khalid Khorasani past year.

But the TTP’s main spokesperson, Muhammad Khorasani, aboriginal denied the radical was progressive successful the attack.

Pakistan authorities person not confirmed either claim.

Rights groups denounced the attack, which came astatine a rocky play for Pakistan amid a grueling outgo of surviving situation and a faltering system worsened by devastating floods past year.