The death toll from the attack on a mosque in Peshawar (Pakistan) rises to one hundred

The TTP disassociates itself from the attack, despite the fact that two of its commanders claimed responsibility for the act

About a hundred people have died from the suicide attack carried out on Monday at a mosque in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan, according to a new official balance of victims released on Tuesday and which also reports more than 220 injured.

A spokesman for the main hospital, Mohamad Asim, has confirmed that about a hundred corpses have reached the center, while more than 50 people remain hospitalized, according to Geo News. Seven of these injured are in the intensive care unit.

The acting chief minister of the Jiber Pakhtunjua region, Muhamad Azan Khan, has stated that investigations have already been opened to try to clarify who is responsible for the attack inside the Police Lines mosque, after the Tehrik-e group -Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban, has distanced itself from the demands initially raised by two of its commanders.

TTP has denied the connection to the suicide attack, in a "clarification", as Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, an organization specialized in monitoring terrorist groups, has collected.

The explosion occurred in the prayer room, the main room of the mosque, which had a capacity for 250-300 people. The suicide bomber had placed himself in the front row during the midday prayer that took place in the mosque before activating the explosive charge he was carrying and killing, among others, Imam Sahibzada Nurulamin.