56 killed, nearly 200 injured as casualties from Pakistan's mosque blast rise
STORY: 56 killed, nearly 200 injured as casualties from Pakistan's mosque blast rise
DATELINE: March 5, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:35
LOCATION: Islamabad
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the blast site
2. various of people being sent to hospital
STORYLINE:
At least 56 people were killed and nearly 200 others injured in a mosque blast in Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, according to hospital and police officials.
Muhammad Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar where all the injured have been shifted, confirmed the casualties to Xinhua, saying that more than 195 people are injured.
Several among the injured are in critical condition, he said, adding that a state of emergency has been declared as the injured are being provided with medicines and blood on an emergency basis at the hospital.
STANDUP (English): ALI JASWAL, Xinhua correspondent
"Haroon Rasheed, senior superintendent of police operations of Peshawar, told Xinhua that two terro
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