IS Claims Suicide Blast at Islamabad Mosque That Killed at Least 31

[Starmix]

According to the report, a suicide blast claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad killed at least 31 people on Friday, with 169 more wounded in the deadliest attack in Pakistan’s capital since the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing.

City officials said that 31 people died in the explosion at the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai area on the city’s outskirts, with scores more being treated for injuries. The death toll was expected to rise further.

The report stated that the blast occurred at Friday prayers, when mosques around the country are packed with worshippers. It said that the attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself. IS said one of its militants had targeted the congregation, detonating an explosive vest and inflicting a large number of deaths and injuries.

The report said that the suicide attacker was trying to move forward, but one of our injured volunteers fired at him from behind, hitting him in the thigh, which made the killer detonate the explosives.

Additionally, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed that those behind the blast would be found and brought to justice. It further said that the attack was the deadliest in the Pakistani capital since September 2008, when 60 people were killed in a suicide truck bomb blast that destroyed part of the five-star Marriott hotel.


Source: The Defense Post

 

[Sanjeev]

That's very tragic incident! Terrorism is spreading even in the Islamic countries. Pakistan has always spread terrorism in India and now they are tasting their own medicine.

 

[Starmix]

That's very tragic incident! Terrorism is spreading even in the Islamic countries. Pakistan has always spread terrorism in India and now they are tasting their own medicine.

You are right, they now taste their own medicine. Terrorism spread in some vulnerable countries. The ISIS terror group was here in the Philippines, but luckily, the president at that time was the brave Duterte. All terrorists were killed.

 

[kit_hung]

Pakistan has always spread terrorism in India

Need to learn to avoid generalization. To me, Pakistan is a nation that is also a victim of terrorism.

 

[Sanjeev]

Need to learn to avoid generalization. To me, Pakistan is a nation that is also a victim of terrorism.

They are victim of terrorism now because they have always a policy to give shelters to the terrorist groups and have well equipped training centers to train them.

 

[Starmix]

The IS terrorists are hard to eliminate, and there are so many. They are lurking anywhere in the world, most specifically in the Islamic countries.