in november. caroline davis reports from the scene. a violent act that destroyed a place of prayer. the explosion ripped through the mosque in a police compound in peshawar when it was filling up for lunchtime prayers. hundreds were inside. some survivors crawled from the rubble. rescue workers used their bare hands to try to find others. ambulances were still arriving at peshawar s lady reading hospital well into the evening. the families who had waited hoping for better news, now distraught, as instead, their loved ones arrived lifeless. inside the hospital, waiting in a corridor, we found zohaib nawaz, his arm in a plaster cast and his back injured. he told us that he remembers a white flash, and was blown five or six feet back by the force of the blast. then the rubble fell on him. he spent more than an hour
wounded to the hospital. l their condition was critical. ambulances were still arriving at peshawar s lady reading hospital well into the evening. the families who had waited hoping for better news, now distraught as instead, their loved ones arrived lifeless. inside the hospital, waiting in a corridor, we found zohaib nawaz, his arm in a plaster cast and his back injured. he told us that he remembers a white flash, and was blown five or six feet back by the force of the blast. then the rubble fell on him. he spent more than an hour trapped beneath it. still in his police uniform, sitting with his wife, javed khan tells us that he had just walked into the mosque when the blast happened. he fell down with the force, and has a severe head injury. people here, some of them have severe burns, others have got broken bones from falling rubble. the number of people coming in still keeps rising.
0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports from the scene. a violent act that destroyed a place of prayer. the explosion ripped through the mosque in a police compound in peshawar when it was filling up for lunchtime prayers. hundreds were inside. some survivors crawled from the rubble. rescue workers used their bare hands to try to find others. ambulances were still arriving at peshawar s lady reading hospital well into the evening. the families who had waited hoping for better news, now distraught as instead, their loved ones arrived lifeless. inside the hospital, waiting in a corridor, we found zohaib nawaz, his arm in a plaster cast and his back injured. he told us that he remembers a white flash, and was blown five or six feet back by the force of the blast. then the rubble fell on him. he spent more than an hour trapped beneath it. still in his police uniform,
hoping for better news, now distraught as instead, their loved ones arrived lifeless. inside the hospital, waiting in a corridor, we found zohaib nawaz, his arm in a plaster cast and his back injured. he told us that he remembers a white flash, and was blown five or six feet back by the force of the blast. then the rubble fell on him. he spent more than an hour trapped beneath it. still in his police uniform, sitting with his wife, javed khan tells us that he had just walked into the mosque when the blast happened. he fell down with the force, and has a severe head injury. it was a hectic situation. there were so many patients, so many attendants who were here, so many injuries who were here. it definitely makes me afraid. i am a human being. these are my brothers and sisters who are here. i do care for them. my heart bleeds for them. people here have, some of them have severe burns, others have got broken bones from falling rubble. the number of people coming in still keeps rising. th
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