A suicide bombing in Pakistan killed at least 52 people and injured more than 50 on Friday at a religious gathering to mark Prophet Mohammed's birthday in a restive province bordering Afghanistan, health officials and police said.
Hours after the suicide blast in Balochistan province, another ripped through a mosque in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which also borders Afghanistan, officials said, killing at least two people.
At least 58 people were wounded in the Balochistan blast, said Abdul Rasheed, a district health official, adding that the toll could rise as many people were in serious condition.
The mosque's roof collapsed in the blast, leaving about 30 to 40 people trapped under the rubble, local broadcaster Geo News reported.
"The bomber detonated himself near the vehicle of the Deputy Superintendent of Police," Munir Ahmed, the deputy inspector general of police, said in a statement.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organisation of various hardline Sunni Islamist groups that have carried out some of the bloodiest attacks inside Pakistan since its formation in 2007, denied that it had carried out Friday's attack in Balochistan.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
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