A suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded almost 170 others during Friday prayers in a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Islamabad, officials said, in the deadliest attack of its kind in the capital in over a decade.
Images from the site showed bloodied bodies lying on the carpeted mosque floor surrounded by shards of glass, debris and panicked worshippers.
The Taliban strongly condemned the deadly attack on a mosque in Pakistan’s capital on Friday. The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, described the incident as “contrary to Islamic and human principles” and emphasized that such actions violate the sanctity of religious sites.