Islamabad mosque blast kills 15, wounds 80: local authorities

ISLAMABAD

Pakistani security officers and rescue worker gather at the site of a bomb explosion at a Shiite mosque, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

A blast at a Shiite mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad on Friday killed 15 people and wounded at least 80, local authorities said.

A senior police official told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that the "explosion occurred after Friday prayers in a Shiite mosque".

"The attacker was stopped at the gate and detonated himself," the source said.

A statement from local authorities in Islamabad said 15 people were killed in the attack at the mosque in the Tarlai area of the city, adding that the "number of patients brought to various hospitals has exceeded 80".

An AFP photographer outside the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital saw dozens of wounded people arriving.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast.