Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif Monday reached Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) capital, Peshawar, following a suicide attack at a mosque in Police Lines during afternoon prayers, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

The Prime Minister went straight to Lady Reading Hospital where he enquired after the injured. He was accompanied by Chief Of Army Staff General Asim Munir.

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb were also accompanying the prime minister.

Taking to Twitter, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said that PM Shehbaz Sharif has summoned an emergency meeting to review the tragic incident, summoning the officials of all concerned institutions.

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The meeting will review the KP’s law and order situation and ‘motives’, while the premier will be briefed on all aspects of the blast. “A preliminary investigation report on the incident will be presented in the meeting”, she added.

Earlier, the prime minister, also the president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, urged the party workers to donate blood to save lives of the injured people.

He said the people, students, and party workers with the O-Negative blood group should immediately reach the Lady Reading Hospital of Peshawar to play their part in saving human lives.

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It is pertinent to mention here that at least 32 people were killed and more than 150 were injured in a suicide attack at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines.

Videos and pictures shared by social media users show horrific scenes as the injured drenched in blood were shifted to local medical centres for first aid after the Peshawar mosque blast.

A part of the mosque has collapsed. The nature of the blast is unknown as per initial reports. An eye witness while talking to ARY News said, he was going to the mosque when the blast occurred and panic prevailed.