Portugal: Afghan Refugee Stabs Two Women to Death in Lisbon Mosque

I have just returned from three days in Las Vegas, and it was there that we heard the terrible news about the school shooting in Nashville. I will have plenty to write about that as the dust settles.

In the meantime, today, there was a knife attack carried out in Lisbon, Portugal by an Afghan refugee at an Ismaili Shiite mosque in which two Portuguese women who were employed at the mosque were killed and another victim, described as a professor, was injured. The attacker was apparently shot by police and transported to a local hospital.

Various Portuguese sources identify the man as an engineer from Afghanistan, who speaks English. He has three children with him and claims that his wife died in a fire in Greece.

We are working on getting a local news video translated into English. In the meantime, the below article in Correio da Manhã is translated by Fousesquawk.

 https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/mariana-e-farana-as-duas-mulheres-que-morreram-no-ataque-ao-centro-ismaelita-em-lisboa?ref=HP_PrimeirosDestaques

Mariana and Farana, the two women who died in the attack at the Ismaeli Center in Lisbon

Correio da Manhã-28 March 2023 at 17:24

It was around 11 am when a man entered armed in the Ismaili Center and killed two persons and wounded a professor with a stab wound to the neck.

Caption: Mariana and Farana, the two women who were stabbed to death in the Ismaili Center in Lisbon.

The fatal victims of the knife attack in the Ismaili Center in Lisbon are Mariana (24) and Farana (49). The mother of one of the fatal victims was at the scene early in the morning when she thought that her daughter was merely injured.

One of the victims, Mariana, was a graduate in political and international relations at the New Faculty of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon.

Around 11 am, an armed man entered the Ismaili Center when there was an English class in progress. The motives of the attack are unknown.

As a result of this attack, a professor was also injured, who was struck by a stab wound in the neck. The victim made it to the Santa Maria Hospital on his own. The attacker, of Afghan nationality, frequented the center, where he was studying Portuguese, and was shot by the PSP (police) and taken to the St. Joseph Hospital. The Correio da Manhã is aware that the attacker had already made threats to people in the center, including the dead victims.

https://radiocomercial.iol.pt/noticias/135758/ataque-no-centro-ismaili-envolveu-homem-armado-com-faca-de-grandes-dimensoes-indica-psp

https://www.publico.pt/2023/03/28/sociedade/noticia/ataque-centro-ismaelita-lisboa-suspeito-detido-2044104    * video