Beirut: The Islamic State group claimed a suicide bombing that hit a Shiite mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 56 people.
“Today Friday, an Islamic State fighter succeeded in assaulting a Shiite mosque in Peshawar,” in northwestern Pakistan, the transnational jihadist group said on its Amaq propaganda site.
The deadly bombing came on the first day of a cricket Test match in Rawalpindi — around 190 kilometres (120 miles) to the east — between Pakistan and Australia, who have not toured the country in nearly a quarter of a century because of security concerns.
