Explosion in Pul Khumri mosque

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Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 35.9468449982272

Longitude: 68.7044167136154

Types of Incident

Conflict Parties

Alleged crimes in the incident

War crime: Attacking civilian objects
War crime: Attacking civilians
War crime: Cruel treatment
War crime: Employing prohibited gases, liquids, materials or devices
War crime: Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
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: Murder
Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
Crime against humanity: Persecution

Perpetrators

Summary: The explosion in the Shia mosque in Pul Khumri city, Baghlan Province, north of Kabul, left a number of dead and injured. According to reports, the explosion occurred during Friday prayers in the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque in the second district of Pul Khomri city. Local media quoted witnesses as saying that explosives planted inside the mosque exploded during prayers. Video images after the explosion show that the place of the explosion was apparently in the line of worshipers. This attack was a "suicide" attack and left at least "20 dead and 66 wounded".