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August 2013 Quetta bombing

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Location
  
Quetta, Pakistan

Non-fatal injuries
  
over 50

Number of deaths
  
31

Target
  
Fayaz Sumbal

Date
  
8 August 2013

Attack type
  
Explosion

Perpetrators
  
unknown, possibly the Taliban

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On 8 August 2013, a suicide attacker exploded a bomb at a funeral being held for a police officer in Quetta, Pakistan, and killed as many as thirty-one people and injured over fifty people. No group has taken responsibility for the bombing, but it is believed that the Taliban were behind the bombing. A senior police officer, Fayaz Sumbal, noticed the suicide bomber before he blew himself up. As Fayaz began searching the suicide bomber's body, the bomber blew himself up. The bomber was wearing a jacket that had ball bearings and shrapnel inside.

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August 2013 Quetta bombing Wikipedia