ISLAMABAD: The death toll from a Friday evening explosion at a mosque in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta increased to 15, in what the country’s military suggested was a targeted attack, said officials on Saturday (Jan 11).
The explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber at a Sunni seminary called Madrassah Darul Uloom Shariah located in the Ghousabad area of Quetta, Shafique Hussain, the city police’s sub-inspector, said by phone.
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