Islamabad, December 04: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a mosque packed with hundreds of Friday worshippers, including military personnel, in Pakistan’s garrison city of Rawalpindi after it was stormed by terrorists, killing at least 35 people and injuring 68 others today.
Terrorists, who used ladders to clamber over the walls of the Jamia Masjid near Parade Lane, lobbed grenades and fired indiscriminately at worshippers, including serving and retired military personnel, who had gathered for Friday prayers at the shrine near army’s heavily-guarded General Headquarters.
The attackers also exchanged fire with the mosque’s security guards. Two of the attackers then blew themselves up in the mosque, intelligence sources were quoted as saying by Dawn News channel.
Thirty five people were killed and 68 others injured, TV news channels reported.
–PTI