Fourty-four people were martyred and one-hundred and forty-seven others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself during Namza-e-Zuhr congregation at a mosque near Police Lines in Peshawar on Monday.

According to Rescue 1122, the bodies and injured have been shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.

The roof of the mosque collapsed after the blast, due to which injured people were stuck under the rubble. The Rescue teams are still taking out the people from the rubble and shifting them to hospitals.

Emergency has been imposed in all the hospitals of Peshawar.

Security forces have cordoned off the area.

Source: Radio Pakistan