PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens more as they attended Friday prayers at a mosque in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area, officials said. The bombing took place in the village of Butmaina in the Mohmand tribal district bordering Afghanistan where the army has been fighting against Taliban militants. “At least 28 people have been killed and 30 others wounded,” deputy chief of the Mohmand tribal district administration Naveed Akbar told Agence-France Presse. “Today our suicide bomber has attacked the so-called peace lashkar [vigilante force]in Mohmand agency’s Anbar district,” the group’s spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in an email to reporters. Last year, the country recorded its lowest number of killings since 2007, when the Pakistani Taliban was formed.

Source: Manila Times September 17, 2016 13:52 UTC