IS Claims Responsibility for Islamabad Mosque Bombing (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Now, the Islamic State group says it carried out the suicide bombing that killed more than 30 people at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Friday. Its statement included a name and picture of the alleged attacker. Caroline Davis has this update from Islamabad.

[00:00:15] Speaker 2: The claim for this attack came through posts on the messaging platform Telegram, seen by the BBC. Now, according to these messages, the so-called Islamic State group say that this was carried out by a branch called the Pakistan Province. Now, we've also seen statements from what is often referred to as IS's news agency, AMAC. They have given images, they say, of the alleged suicide bomber. And they've also said that the reason why the Shia community in Pakistan was targeted is because they allege that this community sends fighters to Shiite militias that then fight against Islamic State in Syria. We have heard from the Pakistan authorities who have said that the attacker was a Pakistani national. Putting this in a larger, bigger picture, we also know that Pakistan has seen multiple attacks from different groups across the country and that there have been increasing number of deaths from those attacks. Yesterday's attack in Islamabad is the most deadly that the capital city has seen since 2008.