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Added on the 10/01/2020 18:15:45 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Several churches were set on fire by a rampaging mob in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday after a Christian family was accused of blasphemy, officials said. IMAGES
Police officials examine the site of a bomb blast that killed at least 44 people and wounded more than 100 others Sunday. The suicide bombing was at a political gathering of a leading Islamic party in northwest Pakistan, officials said. The blast targeted the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party -- a government coalition partner led by an influential firebrand cleric -- as hundreds of supporters congregated under a canopy in the town of Khar, near the Afghan border. IMAGES
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, meets with military personnel and blast victims in Peshawar, where an attack at a mosque in a police headquarters killed at least 47 worshippers and wounded a further 150, with a number of police officers among the dead. The government has put Pakistan on high alert as a frantic rescue operation continues at the blast site. IMAGES
Images show emergency workers and members of the public working through the rubble after a blast at a mosque inside a highly sensitive Pakistani police headquarters on Monday. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 150 more, with police officers counted among those dead. The incident has prompted the government to put the country on high alert. IMAGES
Images show the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz, that killed at least 55 people, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left the country. Scores more victims from the minority community have been wounded in the blast, which has not been claimed but appears designed to further destabilise Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. IMAGES