The AP reported the attack took place in Ambar village in the same region, whereas the AFP reported that the blast took place in the village of Butmana.
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The place where the attack took place, there the army has been fighting against Taliban militants.
Shaukat Khan, another official in the northwestern FATA region, said at least 24 people were wounded.
The outlawed armed group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan has been routinely attacking soft targets such as courts, schools and mosques, causing mass casualties among the civilian population.
Following the suicide bombing on Friday, the security forces intensified checking at the entry and exit routes to Mohmand Agency.
Anti-Taliban vigilante groups are relatively common in Pakistan’s tribal areas, with the Pakistani government encouraging the formation of such groups and at times coercing the local population into forming such groups to resist Taliban expansion.
Other officials have said that up to 35 may have been injured.
“The bomber stood in the last row of worshippers in the packed mosque”, an investigator told The Express Tribune. The bodies and those injured are being shifted to local hospitals.
Though two suicide bombers were able to detonate explosives, but it resulted only in minor injuries, while one suicide bomber was caught by the public and one another managed to flee.
‘The area is remote and so far I have received only this information from our sources via wireless, ‘ he said.
The group said it was a revenge attack, accusing tribesmen of launching an assault on its forces and of capturing militants and handing them over to the government.
The prime minister said that the cowardly attacks by terrorists can not shatter the government’s resolve to eliminate terrorism from the country.
Security has improved following the military operation.
Pakistan’s tribal areas have been subjected to recent attacks by both the Pakistani Taliban and so-called Islamic State.
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The army had launched operation “Zarb-e-Azb” in June 2014 to flush out militant bases in the northwestern tribal areas.
