2014 Paktika car bombing | |
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Part of Taliban insurgency | |
Location | Paktika, Afghanistan |
Date | July 15, 2014 |
Attack type | car bomb |
Deaths | 89 [1] |
Injured | +42 |
Perpetrator | Haqqani network[2] |
On July 15, 2014, in Urgun, Afghanistan, a car bomb suicide attack took place in a crowded bazaar killing 89 people and injuring another 42.[3] It was the bloodiest attack on civilians in Afghanistan since the 2008 Kandahar bombing.[4]