2018 Chabahar suicide bombing | |
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Location | Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran |
Date | 7 December 2018 (UTC+3½) |
Target | Police headquarters[1] |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 2 (+1 attacker)[2] |
Injured | 48 |
Perpetrators | Ansar Al-Furqan |
A suicide car bombing occurred on 6 December 2018 near a police station in Chabahar city, Sistan and Baluchestan Province.[1] The attack left at least two policemen killed and 48 others injured,[3][4] among them women and children.[5]
Iranian media has accused the Ansar Al-Furqan group[6] a Sunni jihadi group, of being behind the incident. Ansar Al-Furqan took responsibility for the attack.[3] Suicide bombings are rare in Iran.[3][7]
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