At least 19 People killed and 60 injured in Taliban Suicide bomb and Gun Attack on a Pakistan Mosque

At least 19 people have been killed and 60 others injured after Taliban militants launched a savage suicide bomb and gun attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Pakistan.
 

The radical Sunni Islamists stormed the mosque in Peshawar - close to the Afghan border - during Friday prayers this afternoon and fired automatic weapons at random, local police said.

 

Amid the ensuing chaos three suicide bomb blasts were heard inside the mosque, which the Taliban are understood to have targeted because they think Shi'ites are not true Muslims.

 

The Pakistani Taliban, who are fighting to set up a hardline Sunni theocracy in the country, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for Pakistan's crackdown on militants following a massacre at a school in the city that killed 145 people, including 132 children.