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.

Police in northwestern Pakistan say an attacker has blown himself in a mosque at a pro-Taliban seminary, killing a top cleric and five other worshippers and wounding dozens ahead of the fasting month

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.

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.

Hamid ul Haq ran the Jamia Haqqania seminary where many Afghan Taliban members studied over past three decades

The blast occurred in Akora Khattak, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Abdul Rashid, a district police chief said.

A senior cleric and five other worshippers were killed on Friday in a suicide bomb attack at a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan, police said. Many people were wounded during the attack in a mosque at the Jamia Haqqania seminary,