2nd LD: 2 killed, 10 injured in suicide attack in Pakistan's Rawalpindi

At least two people were killed and 10 others injured on Wednesday evening when a suicide bomb blast hit a mosque of Shia Muslims in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi, local media and hospital officials said.

The incident took place at 6:30 p.m. when a blast hit a mosque belonged to Shia Muslims in the Shakrial area of Rawalpindi, a sister city of the country's federal capital of Islamabad.

Police, security forces and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital in Islamabad.

Spokesperson of the hospital Aysha said two bodies and 10 injured were brought to the hospital.

The death toll may further rise as three of the injured are in critical condition, the spokesperson said.

An eyewitness said a person reached the main gate of the mosque and opened fire at the security guards and entered into the mosque, igniting the explosive inside his jacket in the main hall where dozens of people were offering their evening prayer.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

In a suicide attack last Friday, at least 23 people were killed in a mosque of Shia Muslims in Peshawar, the capital of the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Endi