January 2010 Bajaur bombing was a suicide bombing in
Khar town in
Bajaur in Pakistan on January 30, 2010. At least 16 people were killed when a man dressed in a
burqa walked up to a military checkpoint and detonated himself.
2 soldiers were among the dead and at least 25 were injured. It has long been suspected that
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
and
Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011, until his death.
Al-Zawahiri graduated from Cairo University with ...
have been hiding in Bajaur.
[ A curfew was imposed in the district after the blast. The bomber was thought to be between 18 – 23 years of age.][
]
See also
*List of terrorist incidents, 2010
*List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001
References
2010 murders in Pakistan
Mass murder in 2010
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2010
Suicide bombings in Pakistan
History of Khar
Bajaur District
Crime in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
January 2010 events in Pakistan
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