2015 Abha mosque bombing

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]

2015 Saudi Arabia attack
Part of Military intervention against ISIL
LocationAbha, Asir, Saudi Arabia
Coordinates18°13′1″N 42°30′19″E
DateAugust 6, 2015
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Deaths17[1]
Injured1
Perpetrator ISIL

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]

See also

References

  1. "Suicide bomber kills 15 in Saudi security site mosque". Reuters UK. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. "Saudi says its citizen carried out mosque suicide blast". Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  3. Kareem Shaheen. "Islamic State claims suicide bombing at Saudi Arabian mosque". the Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/world/middleeast/suicide-bombing-saudi-arabia.html?_r=0
  5. Saudi Gazette. "Terror strikes mosque in Abha". Archived from the original on 10 August 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  6. al-Shihri, Abdullah (7 August 2015). "Saudi Arabia mosque bombing that killed 15 claimed by 'new' Islamic State group". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  7. "Islamic State group claims Saudi mosque suicide blast". BBC News. Retrieved 11 August 2015.


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