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| August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing | |
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| Location | Abu Bakr al Sadiq Mosque,Kabul,Afghanistan |
| Date | 17 August 2022 (2022-08-17) |
| Deaths | 21+ |
| Injured | 33+ |
| Perpetrators | Islamic State - Khorasan Province (suspected) |
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On 17 August 2022, the Abu Bakr al Sadiq Mosque inKabul,Afghanistan was bombed.[1][2] Many were reported killed in the explosion.[3][4] Residents nearby also heard gunshots after the explosion occurred.[1] No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although it wasalmost surely perpetrated byISIS–K, which had stepped up attacks targeting theTaliban and Afghan civilians following the former insurgents’ takeover of the country in August 2021, as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final stages of their withdrawal. The previous week, ISIS–K had claimed responsibility for killing a prominent Taliban cleric at his religious center in Kabul.[5]
Kabul's Emergency Hospital received at least 27 victims of the explosion.[4] 2 arrived deceased, while another died undergoing treatment.[3] Among those killed was the mosque'simamMawlawi Amir Muhammad Kabuli, a prominent Taliban cleric who also ran anIslamic school at the site of the explosion.[6][5] It was later reported that 21 people were killed and 33 were wounded, though some witnesses at the scene put the death toll higher, with one witness claiming that "many other Taliban, as well children, were martyred” and that the total number of actual casualties was "more than 100 (killed and wounded)."[7]