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Friday, March 4, 2022
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Islamic State group claims deadly Pakistan mosque bombing
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Shiite Muslims chant slogans during a demonstration to condemn the bomb explosion in a Shiite mosque, in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)
The Islamic State group claims a suicide bombing that hit a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 56 people.
“Today Friday, an Islamic State fighter succeeded in assaulting a Shiite mosque in Peshawar,” in northwestern Pakistan, the transnational jihadist group says on its Amaq propaganda site.
The deadly bombing came on the first day of a cricket Test match in Rawalpindi — around 190 kilometers (120 miles) to the east — between Pakistan and Australia, who have not toured the country in nearly a quarter of a century because of security concerns.
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