PESHAWAR: At least seven students were killed and scores more wounded Tuesday in a bomb attack on a Qur'an study class at a religious school in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. “The blast took place in a seminary during a Qur’an class. Mohammad Ali Gandapur, another senior police official, said at least seven people had been killed with more than 50 wounded. “The blast took place in the section where students above the age of 18 were taking a class,” Khan said, adding that the wall between the two sections collapsed in the blast. The operation was intensified after the Pakistani Taliban killed more than 150 people, the majority of them children, at a school in Peshawar in December 2014.

Source: Ethiopian News October 27, 2020 05:37 UTC