200 killed and wounded in the bombing of a mosque in Pakistan
51 people were killed in a suicide bombing targeting a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Many dramatic incidents occurred during the past hours, between the bombing of a mosque in Pakistan and a shooting attack on a nightclub.
Mosque bombing in Pakistan
A Pakistani official said that the suicide attack in a mosque in the city of Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan, resulted in 51 dead and more than 150 wounded, noting that most of the victims were policemen.
An official at Peshawar Hospital noted the arrival of dozens of wounded, including a number of critical cases, after the mosque bombing.
A police official named Sikandar Khan told "Reuters" that an explosion occurred in a mosque that had a large number of worshipers in the northwestern city of Peshawar, according to a police official told Reuters.
Sikandar Khan added, "Part of the building collapsed, and many are believed to be under rubble."
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which took place in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan.
Television footage showed police and some residents rushing to remove rubble and debris and carrying the injured on their shoulders, while the former Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, condemned the incident, describing it as a "terrorist."
8 killed in a nightclub in Zacatecas
Sputnik said that 8 people were killed and 5 others were wounded in a shooting attack on a discotheque, in the city of Jerez, in the center of Zacatecas, in the north-central part of the country, controlled by drug gangs.
Armed men opened fire in the nightclub located in the state of Zacatecas, about 670 km north of Mexico City.
Last year's violence in Zacatecas state displaced hundreds of civilians. The violence in the state is due, in particular, to the rivalry between the two largest drug cartels in the country, "Jalisco Nueva Generation" and "Sinaloa".
In March 2022, Agence France-Presse monitored a struggle between the two gangs to control a village that was recaptured by the security forces and abandoned by its residents.
Since the country launched a military campaign against drug gangs in 2006, more than 340,000 people have been killed and 100,000 have gone missing.
