Blast in north Pakistan kills 3

At least three people were killed and many others wounded in a bomb explosion outside a mosque in northern province of Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday. According to police, the bomb was planted in a motorbike parked outside the mosque in Kacha Pakka area in Kohat city. The bomb targeted the mosque on Kohat's Hangu road just when the worshippers were coming out of the mosque after the prayers of Zuhar. The powerful blast killed at least three people and wounded several others. The blast also damaged many shops and buildings around the mosque. The security forces cordoned off the area and begAN investigations into the incident. The wounded people were shifted to the nearby hospital where hospital staff said that the condition of the wounded was mostly critical.