3 conducted Pak mosque attack: Death toll now 48

"Two of the attackers blew themselves (up) with bombs attached to their bodies," the Baluchistan provincial government said in a press note.

The third attacker was wounded and died later in hospital, the head of the federal interior ministry's National Crises Management Cell, Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP.

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The country's humanitarian organisation, Edhi Welfare Trust, said four people died in hospital overnight of wounds suffered in the attack Friday afternoon.

The attack triggered violent unrest, forcing the government to impose an indefinite curfew and deploy troops to quell the unrest.

"Four more people have died in the hospital raising the death roll to 48," Edhi's Quetta supervisor Naeem Ahmed told AFP.