The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral procession that killed at least 37 people in northwest Pakistan.

More than 50 others were wounded when the bomber detonated explosives during a funeral on the outskirts of Peshawar, said police official Kalam Khan.

He said a hand grenade was found at the site after explosion. Security forces promptly defused it.

The attack occurred at the funeral of the wife of a member of a pro-government militia group, said Muhammad Ejaz Khan, a senior city police official.

A few hours after the blast, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said his group was behind the blast.

(VOV)