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The Guardian

Students among those killed after explosives hidden in bag detonate

Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad

Tue 27 Oct 2020 04.20 EDT

An explosion at a religious seminary in Pakistan’s northern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people and injured 136 others.

The deadly blast took place at about 8.30am at the Jamia Zuberia religious school in Dir Colony, where about 500 students were gathered to hear a lecture by influential cleric Rahimullah Haqqani. Most of them were between 20 and 30 years old and from the Khyber Pakthunkwa and Balochistan regions of Pakistan, as well as some from Afghanistan.

A police superintendent, Waqar Azeem Kharal, said the explosion had been caused by at least five kilograms of high-quality explosives brought into the lecture hall in a bag. Kharal said that ball bearings were also used in the explosives. “It shows the attackers planned for mass casualties,” he said.

Police superintendent Rajab Ali of the counter terrorism department confirmed it was being treated as an act of terrorism. “It is too early to say who is behind the attack but from the way it was planned and carried out it is definitely a terrorist attack,” he said.

At least two teachers had been wounded, a police official said.

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