Suicide Attack at Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Masque, Kunduz Province (2021)
Incident- Date
- Oct 8, 2021
- Year of incident
- 2021
- Province of incident
- Kunduz: Kunduz
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.7971548392469
Longitude: 68.8574981689453
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kunduz
- Town/Village
- Sayed Abad Shia Masque
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- ISIL-KP
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Inhuman treatment
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
- 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
- Regime in place
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device among Hazara-Shia worshipers at the Sayed Abad Mosque in Kunduz province on Friday, October 8, 2021. The attack resulted in the death of at least 150 people and injuries to 250 more. The casualties were all civilians, predominantly from the Hazara Shia ethnic group. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant-Khorasan Province claimed responsibility for the attack, identifying a Chinese Uygur national as the suicide bomber and stating the group targeted Hazara Shias.
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- No of victims involved
- 150
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