43 people including the attackers died with a further 168 being injured after two suicide bombers destroyed the College of Sciences. It has been the deadliest attack on Qatifi soil since the end of the Qatifi civil war. The attack was launched on the same day that several other Islamist attacks connected to ISIL were performed in Kuwait, Tunisia, France, Somalia, Rojava and Syria. These events have been known as Bloody Friday in the western media.