Shia Genocide Events
Peshawar, March 4, 2022: ISIS attacked Shi’a Mosque in Qisa Khwani Bazar
Date : March 4, 2022
Location : Peshawar
Casualties :63
Narrative of the Event
On March 4, 2022, at 12:55 p.m. Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5), during Friday prayer, a man dressed in black clothing and armed with a pistol arrived near Masjid Asna-e-Ashri in Kucha Risaldar in a motorized rickshaw with two others. He then proceeded alone [a] towards the building on foot. He shot at police officers outside the building, killing one and fatally wounding another.Five or six shots were fired.
He entered the mosque’s main hall and opened fire on the worshippers, who filled the mosque’s two floors. Seconds later, he detonated an explosive vest carrying around 150 ball bearings and 5 kilograms (11 lb) of explosives, causing a powerful explosion that ripped through the room. The explosive vest was hidden by his large shawl and the dark color of his clothes. A witness said the attacker detonated the explosives when he reached the minbar, and the police inspector-general said it occurred in the mosque’s third row.
At least 56 or 57 people were initially killed, as well as the perpetrator, and another 196 were injured. The victims were taken to Lady Reading Hospital, with 10 arriving “in very critical condition” and 57 dead on arrival. A spokesperson for the hospital said the next day that at least 37 people remained hospitalized, with at least four in critical condition and six dying overnight, bringing the death toll to 63.
A police official believed that the ball bearings caused the most deaths, and many victims had limbs amputated by shrapnel. Among the dead was prayer leader Allama Irshad Hussein Khalil, described by AP News as “a prominent up-and-coming young Shiite leader.”. Two officers, who were wounded as the attacker approached the mosque, died at the scene.
Source:
*** https://www.dawn.com/news/1678357/attack-on-shia-mosque-in-peshawars-koocha-risaldar-claims-57-lives
Daily Dawn Peshawar, 5 March 5, 2022
Daily Jang Rawalpindi, 5 March 2022
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