Bombing in Sakhi Shrine, Kabul (2011)
Incident- Date
- Nov 6, 2011
- Year of incident
- 2011
- 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
- Sakhi Shrine, Blue Mosque
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Civil Order Forces (ANCOF)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Act of genocide: Killing
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Crime against humanity: Persecution
- Summary of incident
At approximately 12pm on December 6, 2011, an explosion occurred near the Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, a northern Afghan city. The bomb, reportedly concealed on a bicycle, detonated amidst a large gathering of Shia mourners commemorating the Day of Ashura at the Sakhi Shrine, resulting in the deaths of four individuals and injuring dozen others. The Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack.
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- No of victims involved
- 4
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