PESHAWAR: At least 60 people were killed and more than 120 including women and children were injured in twin suicide blasts in Qissa Khawani bazaar of Peshawar, Geo News reported.
Sources said suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Kohati gate near the Pakistan Church.
Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have cordoned off the area after the blast.
Chief Executive Leady Reading Hospital (LRH) has confirmed killing of 56 people in the blasts.
Emergency has been declared in the LRH.
The eyewitnesses said the worshipers were leaving the Church when the blast occurred. More than 500 people were present in the Church at the time of suicide attack.
Commissioner Peshawar Sahidzada Anees has confirmed the death toll in the suicide blast, adding 45 people were also injured. The condition of some is said to be critical, he said.
SSP City Police said a policeman was martyred and another wounded in the attack.
The dead also included four children of three to eight years of age besides six women.
Bomb disposal squad chief Abdul Haq said two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the church when people were coming out after Sunday mass.
Talking to Geo News deputy commissioner Zaheerul Islam said "Six hundred people were inside the church when the blast took place".
Council for International Religion has announced three days mourning and three holidays in the missionary schools and colleges in Peshawar.
Grieved relatives gathered outside the church and shouted slogans against police over the security lapse.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed solidarity with the Christian community on lose of lives of their beloved.
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