Assassination attempt in Pakistan: bomb attack at Koran school kills 7 children and injured 70 – News

• At least seven children were killed in a bomb blast at a Koran school in the city of Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan.
• Around 70 people were injured in the explosion.

This was announced by Kamran Bangash, Minister of Information of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. According to police, a stranger is suspected of placing an explosive device in the Koran school, a police officer said.

A state of emergency has been declared in the city’s hospitals and police and security forces have been put on alert. Many of the injured children between the ages of 8 and 15 are in critical condition, a hospital doctor said. Around 100 children and young people are said to have been in the seminary building at the time of the explosion. Television images showed a debris field inside the Koran school. At first no one confessed to the attack.

In 2014, 150 people died in the attack.

Northwest Pakistan was silent for a long time after a military offensive against Islamist terrorist groups in 2014. However, there were repeated attacks by Islamist extremists in the border region with Afghanistan. In 2014, more than 150 people were killed in an attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a school in Peshawar, mainly children and young people.