PESHAWAR An explosion in a mosque killed three people and wounded several others on Saturday, in a region in northwestern Pakistan plagued by violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims, police said.

The attack targeted a mosque in a Sunni neighbourhood of Hangu, a town in North West Frontier Province that has suffered several sectarian attacks before.

So far we have pulled out three bodies from the rubble. Two of them are children, Hangu police chief Sajjad Ahmed told Reuters.

On Friday a bomb killed ten people and wounded 40 at a funeral for a Shia Muslim in Dera Ismail Khan. The funeral was for a man gunned down on Thursday. On the morning of the funeral gunmen killed a Shia cleric.