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Pakistani Taliban claim attack on Shia mosque
Sat Jan 10, 2015 8:21AM

Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have claimed responsibility for a deadly terrorist attack on a Shia mosque in the northern city of Rawalpindi, Punjab Province.

"We claim responsibility of the attack on the Shia mosque and vow to continue such attacks," the spokesman for Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Ehsanullah Ehsan, said in a Saturday statement.

At least seven people were killed and 15 others wounded in a powerful explosion that hit the mosque in the Potohar region on Friday night when dozens of Shia Muslims were marking the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him).
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