What the records say
- When
- 29 Dec 2015
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 34.20° N, 72.05° E
- Description
- the Mardan suicide bombing killed 26 people and wounded more than 50 others.
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Mardan.
Mardan suicide bombing
2015 terrorist incident
On 29 December 2015, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the front entrance of a regional branch of the National Database and Registration Authority, which is responsible for issuing ID cards in northwestern city of Mardan, Pakistan. The blast killed 26 people and more than 50 were wounded. Leader of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
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