2024 Kerman bombings | |
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Location | Kerman, Iran |
Date | 3 January 2024 15:50–16:00 IRST (UTC+03:30) |
Target | 1 |
Attack type | Suicide bombings |
Deaths | 103 (+2)[1] |
Injured | 284[2] |
Perpetrators | Islamic State – Khorasan Province[3] |
On 3 January 2024, a commemorative ceremony marking the assassination of Qasem Soleimani at his grave in eastern Kerman, Iran, was attacked by two bomb explosions. The attacks killed at least 95 people,[6][1] and injured 284 others.[2][7][8] The Iranian government declared the bombings a terrorist attack,[9] making it the deadliest such incident in the country since the Cinema Rex attack of 1978.[10] On the following day, ISIS, a Sunni extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack in the Shia dominated country.[11] According to Reuters, the United States Intelligence Community concluded that the attack was perpetrated by the Afghanistan branch of the ISIS, ISIS-K.[3]
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