Explosion at Mosque in Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 15

A police officer standing amidst the damages as he is surveying and collecting evidence from the site of a bomb blast in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday (Jan 11). - Reuters

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.