Death toll in Pakistan's Islamabad mosque suicide bombing rises to 31


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  • Friday, 06 Feb 2026

ISLAMABAD, ‌Feb 6 (Reuters) - At ‌least 31 people were ‌killed and 169 wounded in a suicide ‍bombing at a ‍Shi'ite Muslim ‌mosque in Pakistan's capital ‍city ​of Islamabad on ⁠Friday, a government official said.

"The ‌death toll in the ⁠blast ‍has risen. A total of ‍31 people have lost ‌their lives. The number of wounded brought to hospitals have risen to 169," Islamabad's deputy ‌commissioner Irfan Memon said.

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad, ​writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by YP Rajesh)

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