India, Feb. 28 -- A powerful bomb exploded at a mosque within a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing at least five worshippers and wounding dozens of others ahead of the fasting month of Ramzan, according to local police.

The explosion took place in Akkora Khattak, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Abdul Rashid, a district police chief said. He added that officers are investigating, and the dead and wounded are being transported to hospitals.

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the attack inside Jamia Haqqania, a seminary which is known for links with the Afghan Taliban, news agency Associated Press reported.

The bombing came ahead of the Muslim holy mon...