Security personnel secure a street after a blast in a religious school in Peshawar on October 27, 2020. – At least four students were killed and dozens more wounded on October 27 when a bomb exploded during a class at their religious school in Pakistan, officials said.
“The blast took place in a seminary during a Koran class. Someone took a bag inside the seminary,” Azim told AFP. The death toll was confirmed by Mohammad Asim Khan, a spokesman at a local hospital, who told AFP that seven bodies and 70 wounded people had been taken to the facility.All of the dead were men aged between 20 and 40, he said. Teachers and boys as young as 7 were among the wounded.
A live stream of the lesson showed a religious teacher speaking in Pashto and Arabic, explaining a saying from the Prophet Mohammed, when the explosion took place. Peshawar was once the epicentre of militant violence in the country, with jihadists targeting security forces and public spaces in the city near the northwestern frontier with Afghanistan.
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