PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

(230930) -- ISLAMABAD, Sept. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A policeman stops a vehicle at a police check-post due to security alert in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2023. An explosion that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday left 50 people dead and at least 50 others injured, Pakistani police and health officials said. The explosion, believed to be a suicide attack, occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In a separate attack on Friday, five people were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide explosion took place inside a mosque in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

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