Attorney General's Office Shuttle Attack - Kabul (2015)

Incident
Date
May 4, 2015
Year of incident
2015
Province of incident
Kabul: Kabul
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Kabul
Town/Village
Police District 6, Kabul City, Kabul Province
Types of incident
  • Anti-Personnel Mine
  • Assassination
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Murder
  • Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Taliban
  • Unknown
Alleged types of crimes
  • Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
  • Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
  • Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Other Crimes : Killing
  • Other Crimes : Murder
Regime in place
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

On May 4, 2015, a suicide attacker detonated a Body-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (IED) targeting a shuttle bus of the Attorney General's Office in Police District 6 of Kabul City. The explosion killed two civilians and injured fifteen others. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack through statements on their social media accounts.

Source_1

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

VOA

No of victims involved
17