2015 Jacobabad bombing | |
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Location | Lashari Mohalla, Jacobabad, Sindh, Pakistan |
Coordinates | 28°16′37″N 68°27′05″E / 28.27694°N 68.45139°E |
Date | 23 October 2015 |
Target | Shia Muslims |
Attack type | Suicide attack |
Weapons | Explosive belt |
Deaths | at least 22; 20-25 missing[1] |
Injured | 20+ |
Perpetrators | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) |
On 23 October 2015, Twenty-three people were killed[2] and several others were wounded when a suicide bomber blast up in a procession of Shia Muslims in Jacobabad, Sindh, on Muharram 9. In this incident 32 people were injured.[3]