<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A rescue and recovery operation was continuing in Pakistan after a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 92 people, most of them police officials.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Muhammad Asim, a spokesperson for the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that at least 170 people were also injured in the blast a day earlier.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>The vast majority of those killed were police officers. Fifty-two wounded people remained in hospital, with six in a critical condition, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Bilal Faizi, the chief rescue official, said rescue teams were still working at the site where more people could still be trapped. The suicide bombing caused the roof of the mosque to collapse, and rescuers have had to remove mounds of debris to recover many of the bodies, authorities said.</div><div><br></div><div>Reporting from Peshawar, Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder said the operation had largely shifted to recovery.</div><div><br></div><div>“There has been a ceremonial send-off to those policemen who lost their lives, also funerals taking place across the province, because these policemen came from several districts - so there is mourning across the province,” he said.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, questions have grown over how the attacker was able to access the heavily fortified area, which includes the headquarters of the provincial police force and a counterterrorism department, while wearing a suicide vest.</div><div><br></div><div>That followed “credible intelligence reports” on January 21 that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) planned a wave of attacks in Peshawar and the wider Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Hyder reported.</div><div><br></div><div>Authorities have not determined who was behind the bombing, although shortly after the explosion Sarbakaf Mohmand, a TTP commander, claimed responsibility for the attack in a post on Twitter. Source: Al Jazeera&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>