A rescue and recovery operation has ended in Pakistan after a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 95 people, most of them police officials.

Kashif Aftab Abbasi, senior superintendent of police operations in Peshawar, said today Tuesday January 31st that more than 225 people were also injured in the blast a day earlier.

Al Jazeera reports that fifty-two wounded people remained in hospital. The vast majority of those killed were police officers.

The suicide bombing caused the roof of the mosque to collapse, and rescuers had to remove mounds of debris to recover many of the bodies, authorities said.

Meanwhile, questions have grown over how the attacker was able to access the heavily fortified area, which includes the headquarters of the provincial police force and a counterterrorism department, while wearing a suicide vest.

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