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Security officials gather for funeral prayers of police officer killed in the Peshawar bombing Source: AAP / AP

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Rescuers have been pulling bodies and searching for survivors after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in the volatile north-western city of Peshawar in Pakistan. This latest attack by resurgent Islamist militants targeting police has killed 59 people, including 27 police officials, and injured many more.

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