Suicide Attack at Fatimiya Masque, Kandahar (2021):

Incident
Date
Oct 15, 2021
Incident date
2021/15/10
Year of incident
2021
Province of incident
Kandahar: Kandahar City
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 31.6311552979186

Longitude: 65.7419292332302

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Kandahar
Town/Village
Kandahar City
Types of incident
  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
  • 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: 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
Regime in place
  • Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

On October 15, 2021, suicide bombers detonated explosives in the Fatimya Shia Mosque compound in Kandahar City, resulting in the death of at least 62 bystanders and injuring over 90 more. The explosion occurred as a large group of Shia Muslims were assembling for Friday prayer. Eyewitnesses reported that the initial explosion occurred outside, followed by two subsequent explosions within the mosque. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) asserted responsibility for the assault aimed at the Shia community.

Source_1

AHRDO Archive

Etilaatroz

Source_2

Euro-news Farsi

BBC Persian

No of victims involved
62