The Pakistani Taliban carried out the attack, spokesman Muhammad Khurasan said in an e-mail to CNN, as revenge for Pakistan’s December 19 execution of a man.
Up to five attackers executed the assault, including a suicide bomber and someone who was shooting in the mosque, Nasir Khan Durrani, the city’s police inspector general, told reporters. One would-be suicide bomber was stopped by people in the mosque who help him by the throat, Durrani said.
