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Three police personnel have been suspended after six detainees escaped from a detention room of the Mahendranagar Area Police Office in Dhanusha district on Monday. The Madhe Province Office, Janakpurdham suspended the police personnel including a custody management officer for negligence in surveillance. The District Police Office, Dhanusha said that Assistant Sub-Inspector Ashok Mandal, senior Head Constable Saroj Regmi and Constable Rohan Magar have been suspended. The District Police Office, Dhanusha and Madhes Province Police Office, Janakpur have been carrying out investigations by forming separate committee.  

Two persons died when a car and a taxi collided with each other near Satdobato, Lalitpur on Sunday. Police identified the deceased as Saroj BK and Dhan Bahadur Basnet. Both were traveling in the car. The taxi (Ba 2 Ja 3420) heading towards Satdobato from Koteshwar collided head-on with the car (Ba 4 Cha 1) last night. Six passengers traveling in both vehicles sustained injuries in the accident, said SP Yagya Binod Pokharel, Chief at the District Police Office, Lalitpur. They are undergoing treatment at the B&B Hospital.  

A suicide bomber struck Monday inside a mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 96 worshippers, officials said, Associated Press reported.

No one has immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, said Saddique Khan, a senior police official in Peshawar who gave the latest casualty tolls, but the Pakistani Taliban have been blamed in similar suicide attacks in the past.

The bomber detonated his suicide vest as some 150 worshipers — including many policemen from nearby police offices — were praying inside. The impact of the explosion collapsed the roof of the mosque, which caved in and injured many, according to Zafar Khan, a local police officer.

A survivor, 38-year-old police officer Meena Gul, said he was inside the mosque when the bomb went off. He said he doesn’t know how he survived unhurt. He could hear cries and screams after the bomb exploded, Gul said.

Rescuers scrambled trying to remove mounds of debris from the mosque grounds and get to worshippers still trapped under the rubble, police said.

Khan said rescuers are trying to get the wounded to a nearby hospital. He said several of the wounded were listed in critical condition at a hospital and there were fears the death toll would rise, according to the Associated Press.

Peshawar is the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan and has been the scene of frequent militant attacks.

The Pakistani Taliban, are known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, and are separate group but also a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in neighboring Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout from the country after 20 years of war.

The TTP has waged an insurgency in Pakistan over the past 15 years, fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic laws in the country, the release of their members who are in government custody and a reduction of Pakistani military presence in the country’s former tribal regions, Associated Press reported.

The weather will be cloudy throughout the country due to the influence of the Westerly low pressure system with chances of light rain and snowfall at some places in the Sudurpaschim and Karnali Provinces. The sky is cloudy across the country at present due to the general impact of the Westerly low pressure system, said Meteorologist Binu Maharjan of the Meteorological Forecasting Division, Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. The weather will be cloudy for the whole day today with the possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim and at one or two places of Karnali province. The Division has forecast light snowfall at some places in the high hilly and mountainous region of Karnali and Sudurpaschim provinces and at one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous region of the rest of the provinces. The same weather will prevail tonight as well, states the weather bulletin issued by the Division today. The Division has urged for precaution for the next 24 hours, stating there is possibility of light rain at a few places of Sudurpaschim province and at one or two places of Karnali and Lumbini provinces. It has also urged for alertness, saying the occurrence of fog and mist in some places of the Tarai region towards the morning is likely to have a general impact on the daily life of people and affect the road and air transport.