MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Somalia has extended condolences to the government of Pakistan and the families of victims killed in an explosion in Peshawar city of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday.
A bomb tore through a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 100 others.
ISIS claimed responsibility, according to a translation of an ISIS statement by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The statement said the bombing was carried out by an Afghan suicide bomber.
Somalia’s foreign minister Abdisaid Muse Ali in a statement said he spoke to Pakistani counterpart to convey condolence message.
“Spoke with H.E @SMQureshiPTI, Foreign Minister of Pakistan. On behalf of the FGS and People of Somalia, I expressed our sorrow after the heinous terrorist attack in Peshawar yesterday which targeted innocent civilians,” the minister said.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families of the injured and deceased. I expressed our solidarity with the Government of Pakistan in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism.”
The attack was one of the deadliest in years to hit Peshawar, a city of roughly two million people near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
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