A senior police official in Pakistan says the death toll in the Peshawar suicide mosque bombing has now climbed to 95 and acknowledges a serious “security lapse” that led to the tragedy.

Kashif Aftab Abbasi, a senior officer in Peshawar, told reporters on Tuesday that along with the 95 now confirmed fatalities, at least 225 people were wounded, most of them policemen who were praying inside the mosque when the bomber struck the day before.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bombing that killed dozens of policemen at a mosque in a government compound in northwest Pakistan reflects “security lapses,” current and former officials said.

The blast, which ripped through a Sunni mosque inside a major police facility the mosque, was one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years, with a death toll that rose to 88 Tuesday.

More than 300 worshippers were praying in the mosque in the city of Peshawar, with more approaching, when the bomber set off his explosives vest on Monday morning, officials said.

The explosion blew off part of the roof, and what was left soon caved in, injuring many more, according to Zafar Khan, a police officer. Rescuers had to remove mounds of debris to reach worshippers still trapped under the rubble.

More bodies were retrieved overnight and early Tuesday, according to Mohammad Asim, a government hospital spokesman in Peshawar, and several of those critically injured died. “Most of them were policemen,” Asim said of the victims. The bombing also wounded more than 150 people.