Pakistani officials have raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country's southwest to 15 people, as IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday.
It killed a senior police officer and 13 others. The bombing also wounded another 20 worshippers.
The funeral of a Pakistani police official, a day after he was killed in a bomb blast during evening prayers at a mosque in Quetta. Source: AAP
Quetta police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema said another victim of the mosque bombing died of serious wounds in the city hospital raising the death toll to 15. He said two other victims were in critical condition.
IS said the attack was a suicide bombing it had carried out targeting Afghan Taliban.
Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi in a statement he denied any of his group's members had been present at the mosque.
A number of militant groups operate in Baluchistan province, where a secessionist group has waged a low-level insurgency for years.
Baluchistan shares a long border with Afghanistan and Iran.
