An inquiry is under way into how a suicide bomber got into the high-security police quarters in Peshawar.
The death toll has risen to 83 people after a mosque suicide bombing which targeted policemen in the Pakistan province of Peshawar.
On Tuesday, rescuers were still scrambling to retrieve worshippers buried in the rubble, with a spokesman telling BBC Urdu the operation would continue for another three hours."The bodies of 20 more people have been recovered and it's feared that some bodies may still be under the rubble."Between 300 and 400 police officers had been in the area at the time, Peshawar police chief Muhammad Ijaz Khan earlier told local media.
The Pakistan Taliban - a group separate to Afghanistan's Taliban government - ended a ceasefire in November, and violence has been on the rise in the country since.- leading to the deaths of 33 militants. Some were covered in burns cream, their skin red with burns from the explosion. Others have broken bones from being hit by falling rubble.
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