2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing

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Date 23 November 2014 Location Yahyakhel District Attack type Suicide attack		Number of deaths 61 Suspected perpetrator Haqqani network
Suspected perpetrators Haqqani network (ally of the Taliban) Locations Paktika Province, Yahyakhel District Similar 22 August 2015 Kabul suicide b, 2015 Khost suicide bombing, 2007 Baghlan sugar fact, 2008 Kandahar bombing

On 23 November 2014, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a volleyball match being held in the Yahyakhel District of Afghanistan's southeastern province Paktika. The explosion immediately killed at least 50 civilians and injured another 60. Many children were among the dead and wounded. By the next day, the death toll had climbed to 61.

Afghanistan's intelligence agency named the Haqqani network, which is closely aligned with the Taliban, as being behind the attack.

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President Ashraf Ghani, who visited some of the wounded at a military hospital in Kabul, condemned attack as "inhumane and un-Islamic," saying "this kind of brutal killing of civilians cannot be justified."

Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), called the attack an "atrocity." A statement released by his spokesperson, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon denounced the attack as "fundamentally abhorrent" and expressed his "steadfast solidarity with the people of Afghanistan in refusing to be cowed by such attacks."

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