Suicide bomber kills more than 50 people near mosque in Pakistan
Pakistan's Interior Minister condemned the "heinous" suicide bombing that killed dozens of people gathered at a mosque to mark the Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
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Pakistan's Interior Minister condemned the "heinous" suicide bombing that killed dozens of people gathered at a mosque to mark the Prophet Mohammed's birthday.
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Authorities in Pakistan have rescued all eight people who were stranded in a disabled cable car dangling hundreds of feet in the air. The BBC's Caroline Davies has the details on how the rescue was carried out.
"We suddenly felt a jolt," said 15-year-old Osama. "It all happened so suddenly that we thought all of us are going to die."
The six children and two adults became trapped earlier in the day when one of the cables snapped while the passengers were crossing a river canyon.
Eight people, including six children, were rescued after their cable car was left dangling nearly 1,000 feet above a river in Pakistan. Ramy Inocencio reports.
Multiple children and adults in Pakistan remain trapped in a dangling cable car with crews working to rescue them. At least two children were rescued by helicopter, the military said. The rest have been stranded for more than 12 hours. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has the latest.
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The death toll in a suspected suicide bombing at a political rally in Pakistan over the weekend rose to 50 on Monday.
The attack targeted a political rally for a pro-Taliban cleric, and that group's rival, the local ISIS affiliate, is based just over the border in Afghanistan.
The death toll from a suicide bombing attack at a political rally in Pakistan has risen to 45. The attack happened Sunday at a gathering for a conservative political party that is allied with the government. According to officials, over 130 people were injured in the attack. BBC News Pakistan correspondent Caroline Davies has more from Islamabad.
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The bombing was one of the worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar.
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