2015 Abha mosque bombing
2015 Saudi Arabia attack | |
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Part of Military intervention against ISIL | |
Location | Abha, Asir, Saudi Arabia |
Coordinates | 18°13′1″N 42°30′19″E / 18.21694°N 42.50528°E |
Date | August 6, 2015 |
Attack type | Suicide bombing |
Deaths | 17 |
Injured | 1 |
Perpetrator | ISIL |
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.
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.