Pakistan: 55 reported dead in mosque suicide bomb attack

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early today at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing a reported 55 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.

Local police chief Feroz Shah said: “According to my reports so far, 55 are dead but we are checking this figure, and over 100 are wounded.”