Peshawar blast LIVE: Pak Taliban commander claims responsibility for suicide bombing at mosque which killed nearly 50

‘Emergency situation’ in Peshawar following blast 

Part of the mosque roof and wall had collapsed and bloodied survivors limped from the wreckage, as dead bodies were ferried away in ambulances, an AFP reporter saw.

“It’s an emergency situation,” Muhammad Asim Khan, a spokesman for the main hospital in Peshawar, told AFP.