2007 Charsadda mosque bombing | |
Location: | Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
Date: | 21 December 2007 |
Partof: | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Target: | Mosque |
Type: | Suicide bombings |
Weapons: | Explosive belts |
Fatalities: | 50 |
Injuries: | 100 |
Perpetrator: | Unknown |
On 21 December 2007, at least 50 people were killed and 100 others injured by a suicide bombing in Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.[1] The bomber detonated his explosives in a mosque in the residential compound of Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, where prayers for Eid al-Adha were being conducted.[1] Sherpao was among the 1,000 people in the mosque at the time, but was not injured.[1] The bomb contained around seven kilograms of explosive as well as nails and ball bearings.[1]
Charsadda suffered major insurgent attacks in April 2007, February 2008, May 2011, January 2016 and February 2017.