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AFP
13 February, 2015, 21:30
Update: 13 February, 2015, 21:36
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AFP
13 February, 2015, 21:30
Update: 13 February, 2015, 21:36
Taliban attack on a mosque in Pakistan kills 16. Photo: AFP

Heavily-armed militants stormed a Shiite mosque in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 16 people in an attack claimed by the Taliban as revenge for the execution of one of their cadres.

Three attackers with grenades, Kalashnikovs and explosive suicide vests struck at the Imamia mosque in Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan's restive northwest, around the time of the main Friday prayers.

The attack comes two weeks after a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan killed 61 people, the deadliest sectarian incident to hit the country in nearly two years.

Shehram Tarakai, the health minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of which Peshawar is the capital, told AFP the incident had left a total of 19 people dead, including the three militants, as well as 67 wounded.

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in an email statement, saying it was revenge for a militant known as Doctor Usman, who was hanged in December.

"This is a series of taking blood for blood, which will continue. The government should expect more and even harder responses," the statement said.

Police said the attack began  when the militants entered from a nearby building site, cutting barbed wire to get into the mosque compound.

"One suicide bomber exploded himself in the verandah of the mosque while another was shot dead by police inside the main hall," Nasir Durrani, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief, told AFP.

"The third was caught by people but was also killed later on."

Eyewitness Mohammad Khalil told AFP a "huge explosion" shook the main hall of the mosque as prayers were coming to an end, and then the gunmen started firing on worshippers.

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