2014 Paktika car bombing

Suicide attack in a crowded bazaar 2014 Paktika car bombing Taliban insurgency Paktika, Afghanistan car bomb July 15, 2014 89 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/afghanistan-car-bomb-38-civilians-dead-paktika At least 89 people were killed in car bombing The Guardian July 15, 2014 July 15, 2014 +42 Haqqani networkhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DISPATCHB-4064 Urgun Diary: Car Bomb Devastates Afghan Town Wall Street Journal 16 July 2014 Totakhil Habib Khan On July 15, 2014, in Urgun, Afghanistan, a car bomb suicide attack took place in a crowded bazaar killing 89 people and injuring another 42.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/afghanistan-car-bomb-38-civilians-dead-paktika Afghanistan car bomb leaves at least 89 civilians dead The Guardian July 15, 2014 15 July 2014 It was the bloodiest attack on civilians in Afghanistan since the 2008 Kandahar bombing.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/afghanistan-car-bomb-38-civilians-dead-paktika Afghanistan car bomb leaves at least 89 civilians dead TheGuardian.com 15 July 2014 The Attack At 10am police saw a suicide bomber driving a SUV into the center of Urgun, driving down the main road, the suicide bomber detonated his payload at 10:30am killing himself in the process. When he blew up the shockwave instantly destroyed 30 mainly mud and straw shops, dozens of vehicles, killing 89 people and wounding 42 more.https://www.wsj.com/articles/car-bomb-kills-scores-in-crowded-market-in-afghanistan-1405428475 Car Bomb Kills Scores in Crowded Market in Afghanistan Wall Street Journal 15 July 2014https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-bombing-paktika.html Scores Killed in Car Bombing at Busy Market in Eastern Afghanistan The New York Times 15 July 2014 Rosenberg Matthew Mangal Farooq Jan The wounded and dead overwhelmed the nearby clinic and the military had to bring in helicopters and ambulances to transport casualties from the bomb site to Sharana, the Provincial capital.https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0715/At-least-89-killed-in-eastern-Afghanistan-suicide-blast At least 89 killed in eastern Afghanistan suicide blast Christian Science Monitor 15 July 2014 The Haqqani network was responsible for the attack having had planned it in the North Waziristan District of Pakistan. See also Taliban insurgency 2014 Yahya Khel suicide bombing (also in Paktika) References Pakistan Category:2014 murders in Afghanistan Category:Attacks in Afghanistan in 2014 Category:2014 mass murders Category:Terrorist incidents in Afghanistan in 2014 Category:Suicide car and truck bombings in Afghanistan Category:2014 massacres in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Category:July 2014 in Afghanistan Category:History of Paktika Province