2015 Kandahar Airport attack

2015 Kandahar Airport attack
Location of Kandahar Province in Afghanistan
Location	Kandahar Province
Date	8 December 2015
Attack type	suicide bomb
Deaths	50^[1]
Non-fatal injuries	35

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Several suicide bombers penetrated the security of Kandahar Airfield on Tuesday, 8 December 2015, barricading themselves in an old school building that now contains shops and battled with Afghan soldiers for few hours. The Afghan defence ministry stated that 50 civilians and members of the security forces had been killed, along with 11 attackers, and 35 people were injured. The Taliban claimed responisibility.^[1] ^[2]

The attack was co-ordinated just hours after a, "Message to Obama", was posted on a video site, by the Taliban warning U.S. troops, their gunmen open firing at the bazaar near the Kandahar airport at 6:20 p.m. local time (8:50 a.m. ET) on Tuesday.^[3]

References

1 2 "50 killed in attack at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport". CNN. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
↑ "Kandahar airport death toll jumps to 50 after Taliban attack". BBC. 8 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
↑ 50 killed in attack at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport

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2015	2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack 2015 Kabul Parliament attack Khost suicide bombing Jalalabad suicide bombing August 2015 Kabul attacks 10 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack 22 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack Ghazni prison escape Battle of Kunduz Kunduz hospital airstrike Kandahar Airport attack 2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul

2016	2016 Kabul suicide bombing

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2015 Kandahar Airport attack

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