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Taliban Offshoot Claims Responsibility for Bombing of Pakistani Police Compound

HeadlineJan 31, 2023

In Pakistan, the death toll from Monday’s suicide bombing in the northwestern city of Peshawar rose to 95, after first responders ended their rescue and recovery operation. A local official said more than 225 people were also injured in the attack, which tore through a packed mosque inside a police and government compound. Most of the dead were police officers. An offshoot of the Taliban known as TTP claimed responsibility for the massacre.

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