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