Assassination attempt in Pakistan – Koran school attack kills seven children – 70 injured – News

• At least seven children were killed when a bomb went off at a Koranic school in Peshawar, northwestern Pakistan.
• About 70 others were injured in the blast.

This was announced by Kamran Bangash, Minister of Information of the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. According to police, a stranger is suspected of placing an explosive device in the school of the Koran, a police officer said.

A state of emergency was declared in the hospitals of the city and the police and security forces were put on high alert. Many of the injured boys between the ages of 8 and 15 are in critical condition, a hospital doctor said. About 100 children and young people are said to have been in the seminary building at the time of the explosion. The television images showed a rubble field inside the Koranic school. At first no one confessed to the attack.

In 2014, 150 people were killed in the attack

Northwest Pakistan remained quiet for a long time after a military offensive against Islamic terrorist groups in 2014. However, there have been repeated attacks by Islamic extremists in the border region with Afghanistan. In 2014, a Pakistani Taliban attacked a school in Peshawar, killing more than 150 people, mostly children and young people.