Suicide Bombing in Crowded Market in Balkh (2016)
Incident- Date
- Aug 9, 2016
- Year of incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.6940040349316
Longitude: 67.1132463131472
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Mazar-e Sharif
- Town/Village
- Mazar-e Sharif, Balkh province
- Types of incident
- Bombing
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On August 9, 2016, a suicide bomber attacked a crowded market in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif. The explosion killed at least one person and wounded more than a dozen others. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the civilian marketplace.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 1
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