Blast near Landi Kotal mosque kills 4-year-old girl: Official

PESHAWAR: A remote controlled bomb exploded near a mosque in Landi Kotal on Sunday, killing a four-year-old girl and wounding three others, an official said.

The bomb was planted beside the outer wall of the mosque in Landi Kotal town in the Khyber tribal region, local administration chief Shakeel Burki said.

"The blast killed a four-year-old girl and wounded three others, one of them seriously," he said.

No one has claimed responsibility of the blast which came a day after a bomb placed in a mosque in a densely populated neighbourhood of Peshawar went off during afternoon prayers, killing six people.

Peshawar is vulnerable to bomb blasts and Taliban attacks as it runs into the semi-autonomous tribal belt, considered a safe haven for Taliban, al Qaeda and other insurgents fighting both in Pakistan and across the border in Afghanistan.