A bombing occurred on 13 December 2015 at a clothes bazaar in Pakistan's
Parachinar
Parachinar (; ) is a city and the capital of the Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Parachinar is situated on the west of Peshawar, that juts into the Paktia, Logar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan. With ...
area in the
Kurram Valley
Kurram District () is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river ''Kwarma'' () in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word ''Krumu'' ().
Until 2018, it funct ...
. It was not clear whether the bombing was a suicide attack or a remotely controlled detonation. The blast killed 25 people and another 62 were injured.
See also
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2008 Parachinar bombing
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2013 Parachinar attack
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Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015
This is a List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001, list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015.
January
9 January – Time bomb in drainpipe explosion killed at least eight people took place near Imambargah Aun Muhammad Rizv ...
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List of terrorist incidents, 2015
This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2015, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military con ...
References
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2015 murders in Pakistan
21st-century mass murder in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Improvised explosive device bombings in Parachinar
Mass murder in 2015
Improvised explosive device bombings in 2015
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
Attacks on buildings and structures in Parachinar
Marketplace attacks in Pakistan
Building bombings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2015 building bombings