2021 Kunduz mosque bombing | |
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Part of the Islamic State–Taliban conflict and the 2021 Afghanistan attacks | |
Location | Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque, Kunduz, Afghanistan |
Coordinates | 36°43′41″N 68°52′35″E / 36.72806°N 68.87639°E |
Date | 8 October 2021UTC+04:30) | (
Target | Shia worshippers |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 50+[1] |
Injured | 143[1] |
Perpetrators | ![]() |
Motive | Taliban support for Chinese expulsion of Uyghurs, Chinese repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang |
On 8 October 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bombing occurred at the Shia Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz.[3][4] Over 50 people were killed, and another 100 injured, but according to an estimate by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, more than 100 people were killed and wounded.[5]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing scores of worshippers .... Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack that state-run Bakhtar news agency said had killed 46 people and wounded 143.
The United Nations mission to Afghanistan said in a tweet the blast killed and wounded more than 100 people.