A suicide bomb attack at a mosque within a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan has killed a senior cleric and five other worshippers.

A bomb blast at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban killed six worshipers during Friday prayers, police said.

An attacker blew himself up Friday in a mosque at a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.

Police in northwestern Pakistan said Friday a suicide bomber detonated himself during afternoon prayers at the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, killing at least six worshipers and wounding more than a dozen others.

A suicide bomber has killed at least five people at an Islamic seminary in Pakistan, including the son of the man considered the father of the Taliban.

PESHAWAR: top cleric and six worshippers were killed, while 18 others sustained injuries, in a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at a seminary in Pakistan’s

Authorities are investigating the attack, but no group has claimed responsibility so far. The seminary, located in the Nowshera district, had its own security, and more than a dozen police officers were stationed at the mosque when the explosion occurred.

A deadly blast at Darul Uloom Haqqania in Pakistan's Akkora Khattak district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province killed at least five people and injure