At least 25 people were killed and 120 injured by an explosion on Monday at a mosque in the police headquarters in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, a local government official said.

"I am here at the scene and rescue work is underway," said Peshawar Deputy City Commissioner Shafiullah Khan.

"More bodies are being removed. Right now

our priority is to save the people buried under the rubble

," he added.

A Peshawar policeman, Behzaad Khan, reported that a suicide bomber detonated his charge at the mosque located in the Police Lines area, but this hypothesis has not yet been officially confirmed.

The place was especially crowded during the midday prayer, said an eyewitness in statements collected by the Pakistani television Geo TV.

For the moment, no insurgent formation has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The last attack against a religious center in Pakistan took place in the same city of Peshawar in March 2022, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a Shiite minority mosque, leaving 56 dead and almost 200 injured.

Bombings and insurgent attacks have increased in recent months in Pakistan after several years of relative calm, largely due to the resurgence of the main Pakistani Taliban group, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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