An ISIL (ISIS) suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan last week was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack, police say.
Two senior Pakistan police officials said the suicide bomber responsible for Friday’s Peshawar blast had prepared the attack in Afghanistan, an AFP news agency report said on Wednesday.
The officials said the attacker was an Afghan national in his 30s who moved to Pakistan with his family decades ago.
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Source: Al Jazeera News
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