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Powerful blast rips apart 100-year old mosque, shrines in FATA | | A powerful blast ripped apart a mosque and some other
shrines in Landi Kotal tehsil of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas’(FATA) Khyber Agency on Thursday morning. According to reports, some unidentified miscreants
triggered the blast destroying the Masjid-e-Ishkhel, besides ruining some other
shrines located within the boundary wall of the mosque. No casualties were reported
in the attack on the 100-year-old mosque till last reports were filed. The caretaker
of the mosque said that hundreds of devotees visited the shrines destroyed in
the blast regularly. No group has claimed the responsibility for the explosion,
Xinhua reports. |
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