Several dead in bomb blast in Pakistan mosque

At least nine people are feared dead and scores other injured in a bomb blast at a mosque in northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa area of Pakistan on Friday.

The bomb ripped through a mosque inside Akhun Punjo Baba shrine as people gathered for Friday prayers, reports said.

The bomb was suspected to have been kept in a cupboard of the mosque and detonated with a remote control.

The sound of the blast could be heard several kilometers away, local reports claimed.

The blast went off when the prayers were being offered and hundreds of people had gathered to take from the community kitchen.

At least nine people, including children, have been reported to be killed in the blast.

Several others were injured, who were rushed to a nearby hospital.

The casualty figures could go further up, reports said.

The mosque was extensively damaged in the blast.

No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack and Taliban hand is suspected to be behind the blast as it had targeted Sufi sect mosques, like the latest attacked mosque, on previous occasions.