At least seven people were killed and quite 70 injured in an explosion on Tuesday morning at the Jamia Zuberia madressah in Peshawar’s Dir Colony.
According to Lady Reading Hospital spokesperson Mohammad Asim, four of the deceased were students between the ages of 20 to 25.
“The blast happened within the madressah during a Quran class. Someone took a bag inside the seminary,” Waqar Azim, a senior police official, told AFP.
Mohammad Ali Gandapur, another senior police official, confirmed the small print . He said two teachers were among the wounded.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Mansoor Aman confirmed the explosion, saying that initial reports suggest an improvised device (IED) was utilized in the explosion. “Five kgs of explosives were utilized in the blast.”
Security officials examine the location of a blast at a madressah in Peshawar on Tuesday. — AFP
The area has been cordoned off and police teams are collecting evidence, he added.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The LRH spokesperson said that seven dead bodies and 70 injured are delivered to the power .
وزیر اعظم عمران خان کی پشاور دھماکے کی شدید مذمت
دھماکے میں قیمتی جانوں کے ضیاع پر افسوس کا اظہار۔ وزیر اعظم کی افسوسناک واقعے کے نتیجے میں زخمی ہونے والوں کی جلد صحتیابی کے لیے دعا۔ pic.twitter.com/loOUJASIZx
— Prime Minister’s Office, Pakistan (@PakPMO) October 27, 2020
He stated that the injured were being given immediate medical attention and therefore the hospital’s director was present at the emergency ward. He added that an emergency had also been declared at the medical facility.
According to reports, the injured have also been taken to Khyber Teaching Hospital, Hayatabad Medical Complex and Naseerullah Khan Babar Hospital.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra visited the location of the blast. chatting with reporters, he said that the main target was on providing the injured the simplest possible treatment to extend their chances of recovery.
‘Heart-rending, condemnable’
Prime Minister Imran Khan “strongly condemned” the blast, consistent with a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office. He expressed sadness over the lives lost within the explosion and prayed for the fast recovery of the injured.
Information Minister Shibli Faraz strongly condemned the blast, saying those that attack students gaining knowledge haven’t any reference to humanity. “We will defeat the objectives of these attacking the steadiness of the country,” he added.
PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif also condemned the blast, saying that those that targeted the madressah “could not be Muslims”.
He said the incident reminded him of the 2014 Army Public School massacre during which 132 students and 17 school staff lost their lives and involved those responsible to be caught and punished.
PML-N vice chairman Maryam Nawaz termed it a “heart-rending” incident. “The damage inflicted to students is extremely saddening. there’s no compensation for the mothers who have lost their children,” she said.
PML-N leader Ahsan Iqbal said he was “very sorry” to listen to of the incident. “Terrorists, who had been defeated, are again hitting us because Imran Khan has pitched security apparatus against the opposition rather than terrorists. National Action Plan has been forgotten,” he tweeted.
Last week, Balochistan government spokesperson Liaquat Ali Shahwani said that National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) had issued a security alert for the general public rallies of opposition parties in Quetta and Peshawar, saying there was “credible information” about possibility of subversive activities.
پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ن) کے قائد محمد نواز شریف کی پشاور مدرسے میں دھماکے کی شدید مذمت
قرآن خوانی کرتے معصوم بچوں کو نشانہ بنانا انتہائی قابل مذمت اور افسوسناک ہے
واقعہ پر بے حد رنجیدہ اور غمگین ہوں، معصوم بچوں اور ان کے والدین کے دکھ کا سوچ کر دل پھٹا جارہاہے
— PML(N) (@pmln_org) October 27, 2020
Last month, five people were killed and two others injured during a blast within the Akbarpura area of Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Very sorry to hear about the blast & casualties in Peshawar. Terrorists, who had been defeated, are again hitting us becuz IK has pitched security apparatus against the opposition instead of terrorists. National Action Plan has been forgotten. Min of Interor is extension of NAB.
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2020
District policeman (DPO) Najamal Hassan said that the explosion occurred during a market situated along the Kabul River. “Some people were collecting scrap material from the stones alongside the river. a number of the scrap included explosive material which detonated once they were weighing it.”