November 2016 Kabul suicide bombing

November 2016 Kabul suicide bombing
Part of War in Afghanistan
Location Baqer-ul Ulom mosque, Kabul, Afghanistan
Date 21 November 2016
01:00 pm (UTC+04:30)
Target Shia mosque
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Weapons Bomb
Deaths 32 [1]
Non-fatal injuries
80
Perpetrators Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province
Motive Sunni fundamentalism
Anti-Shi'ism

The November 2016 Kabul suicide bombing occurred on 21 November 2016.[2][3] At least 32 people have been killed and above 80 were injured in a suicide bombing at a Kabul Shia mosque "Baqir-ul-Olum".[4] People including women and children were commemorating Arba'een rituals.[5] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility for the attack.[6] It was just one in a string of major attacks in Kabul during 2016, and the third to be claimed by ISIL.

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Domestic

President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the attack by calling the attack on the mosque an unforgivable and a major crime committed by the enemies of the country. He also further added that attacks on sacred and religious sites are a sign of clear enmity with Islam and the Afghan people.[7]

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