Sialkot mosque bombing

On 1 October 2004, a bombing occurred at the Zainabia mosque in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan. Hundreds of Shia Muslims were attending Friday prayers in the mosque at the time. The improvised explosive device was hidden in a briefcase and exploded in the centre of the prayer hall. It killed 31 people and injured dozens of others. A second bomb weighing about twelve kilograms was found in a briefcase and defused by a bomb disposal squad.