Women and Child Killed in Taliban Attack on Capital - Kabul (2019)
Incident- Date
- Jul 25, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Kabul: Kabul
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Kabul City, Kabul
- Types of incident
- Complex Attack
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Eleven civilians, including five women and one child, were killed in a coordinated attack involving a suicide bombing, improvised explosive device blast, and car bomb in Kabul City. The Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs blamed the Taliban for the attacks, though insurgents only claimed responsibility for the car bomb component. A Taliban spokesman claimed that nine foreign officers were killed in the attack. The incident involved multiple explosive devices targeting both civilian and international security forces.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 11
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