2015 Saudi Arabia attack | |
Partof: | Military intervention against ISIL |
Location: | Abha, Asir, Saudi Arabia |
Coordinates: | 18.2169°N 42.5053°W |
Date: | August 6, 2015 |
Type: | Suicide bombing |
Fatalities: | 17 |
Injuries: | 1 |
Victim: | --> |
Perp: | ISIL |
Susperp: | --> |
Numpart: | --> |
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The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Responsibility for the attack, in a city near Saudi Arabia's southern border with Yemen, a country presently torn apart by the Yemeni Civil War, was claimed by a self-described affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria calling itself Hijaz Province of the Islamic State.[6] [7]