PESHAWAR, Pakistan, July 20 (UPI) -- At least 12 people were killed in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber inside a mosque near Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city, CNN reported Friday.
Those killed included children and soldiers. Such violent attacks have increased sharply in Pakistan, especially in the northwest region where Taliban and al-Qaida are believed to have regrouped.
CNN said 25 others were wounded in the mosque attack Thursday in Kohat, outside Peshawar. Other details were not available.
Earlier Thursday, separate bomb explosions and suicide attacks in other parts of the country killed at least 35 people and wounded 47 more.
The attacks, especially against Pakistani soldiers, have picked up since last week when the Pakistani military, after an assault, retook a mosque in Islamabad that had been occupied for months by radical Islamic students.
Militants Wednesday attacked an army convoy in North Waziristan, near the Afghan border, killing 16 soldiers.
