2015 Jacobabad bombing
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2015 Jacobabad bombing | |
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Location | Lashari Mohalla, Jaobabad, Sindh Pakistan |
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Date | 23 October 2015 |
Target | Shia Muslims |
Attack type
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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 (a city of Sindh) on Muharram 9. In this incident 32 people were injured.[3]
See also
- Targeted killings in Pakistan
- Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015
- List of terrorist incidents, 2015