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PESHAWAR:  A suicide blast inside a Shia mosque shook Peshawar’s Kocha Risaldar area on Friday, with officials saying that at least 56 people were killed and around 200 were injured. Mohammad Asim, a spokesperson for local Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), confirmed the casualties, adding that some of the injured were in critical condition, reports Dawn. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa which borders Afghanistan. Officials, who termed the incident a suicide attack, initially said that two attackers were involved. However, CCTV footage released...