15 killed in Pak mosque blast

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At least 15 people, including five police officers, were killed and 56 injured after an explosives-laden vehicle exploded inside a mosque near police offices in Kohat, Pakistan.

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Karachi: At least 15 people were killed and 56 injured on Friday after a bomb exploded inside a mosque in northwestern Pakistan. Five police officers were among those killed as the attack happened near a building housing police offices.

The attacker rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the mosque in Kohat, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, said the provincial police chief, Zulfiqar Hameed.

The attack left the outer wall of the police offices collapsed and the mosque badly damaged. Two armed men attempted to enter the police premises and exchanged fire with officials there, police said.

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