Mosque Blasts In Pakistan's NW Kills At Least 71 -- Yahoo News/Reuters
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two explosions killed at least 71 people in mosques in Pakistan's northwest on Friday, officials said, after a relative lull in militant violence.
In one attack, a suicide bomber blew himself up as Friday prayers were ending, killing at least 66 people, provincial government officials said. The attack occurred in Darra Adam Khel, a suburb of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province capital Peshawar.
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