AT LEAST 70 people are feared killed and several injured after a bomb exploded in a mosque in Jamrud town in Khyber agency in North west Pakistan, on Friday (March 27). So powerful was the suicide blast that the mosque in which hundreds of people were offering Friday prayers collapsed.

Officials said that this suicide attack could be linked to sectarian strife, which has already claimed several lives in the region. Violence has been unleashed in the North western Frontier province of Pakistan by fundamentalist groups such as Taliban as well as Shia and Sunni militants.

A number of injured are caught under the rubble of the mosque, which came down due to the impact of the blast. Several people were injured by the falling debris and they were taken to the nearby hospitals for treatment.

Till last reports, rescuers had found at least 46 bodies and feared that more would be found, once the debris was removed.

On Thursday, a powerful blast had killed 10 people in a suicide attack in South Waziristan in what appeared to be an attack orchestrated by one terror group on another.