On June 20, 2016, at around 0600 AFT, a suicide bombing attack claimed to be conducted by the Taliban or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant hit a convoy of Canadian embassy security guards en route to the embassy in Kabul. The attack took place in the ninth police district in the Benayi area, Kabul, Afghanistan. The victims were Nepalese contractors, with some sources claiming that there were also Afghan contractors, and other sources claiming that the Afghan nationals were not security contractors and were instead nearby. Other sources also claimed that there were two Indian guards among the dead. Many civilians at a nearby market were among the nine people injured in the blast, some seriously. The attack occurred during the holy month of Ramadan. The incident sparked debates on the