Death toll rises to 83 in Pakistan mosque blast targeting police: hospital

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More bodies arrived overnight

Staff Writer, Agence France-Presse (AFP)

January 31, 2023

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The toll from a mosque blast targeting police in northwestern Pakistan has risen to 83, hospital officials said Tuesday.

Muhammad Asim Khan, a spokesman for Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told AFP that more bodies arrived overnight.

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