Deadly bomb attack on Islamic seminary in Pakistan

People comfort a cleric in the wake of the bombing (AP)

At least eight students have died and 136 others were hurt after a bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar.

The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia madrassa, a police spokesman said.