28 martyred, over 100 injured in Peshawar Police Lines' mosque blast.

PESHAWAR -- An apparently powerful suicide blast here at the mosque of Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines on Monday martyred 28 worshipers, including policemen, and injured over 100 others during the Zuhr (afternoon) prayer.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Ghulam Ali confirmed the death toll while talking to reporters at the site of the blast.

The explosion was so powerful that the front portion of the mosque, located in the Red Zone, was razed to the ground.

The blast occurred in the front row of the worshipers. The casualty figure may raise as the condition of many injured was stated to be critical.

The governor said some of the victims were still buried under the debris and the rescue workers were trying to retrieve them. He appealed to the people, particularly those having O negative blood group, to donate blood.

The KP Health Department imposed emergency in all three major hospitals of Peshawar.

Commissioner Peshawar Riaz Mehsud told journalists that there was no shortage of medicines in hospitals and the operation was underway to rescue the worshippers buried under the debris.

The dead brought to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) included Inspector Doran Shah, ASI Liaquat Khan, prayer leader (Imam) Moulana Sahibzada Noorul Amin, Shahryar son of Muhammad Islam, resident of Gulshan Colony Peshawar...