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An explosion ripped through a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad on Friday killing several worshippers, police said.
The explosion occurred at Tarlai Imambargah in the Shehzad Town area of the federal capital, the Dawn newspaper reported.
The explosion rocked the mosque during Friday prayer, police official Zafar Iqbal said. "We have shifted several people to hospitals. I can't say how many are dead at this moment, but yes people have died," he said.
The type of explosion is not yet clear, a police spokesman said.
Police and rescue services have reached the site and started rescue operations.
Citing a spokesperson for Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that the emergency was declared at hospital.
The injured are being transferred to PIMS and Polyclinic for treatment, it added.