Distraught relatives thronged hospitals in Pakistan's Peshawar to look for their kin a day after a suicide bombing ripped through a crowded mosque in a heavily fortified area of the city, killing 100 people
Authorities say they do not know how the bomber managed to breach the military and police checkpoints leading into the Police Lines district, a colonial-era, self-contained encampment in the city centre that is home to middle- and lower-ranking police personnel and their families.
Peshawar sits on the edge of the Pashtun tribal lands, a region mired in violence for the past two decades. The most active militant group in the area is the, also called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan , an umbrella group for Sunni and sectarian Islamist factions opposed to the government in Islamabad. The TTP denied responsibility, though it has stepped up attacks since withdrawing from a peace deal with the government last year.
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