Suicide Attack on Kawsar-e-Danish Educational Center ( 2020)
Incident- Date
- Oct 24, 2020
- Year of incident
- 2020
- Combined geolocations
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- Exact geolocation of incident
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Barchi, West Kabul
- Types of incident
- Complex Attack
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- ISIL-KP
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Act of genocide: Killing
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Crime against humanity: Persecution
- Summary of incident
Around 4:30 p.m. on October 24, 2020, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive device inside the Kawsar-e Danish Educational Center in the western portion of Kabul City's PD-13 neighborhood in the Pol-e-Khoshk district. The educational institute provided coaching for high school students preparing for university entrance exams. This attack resulted in at least 43 students being killed and 72 more being injured. The attack happened in a primarily Hazara neighborhood in Dasht-e-Barch, where the majority of students attending the tuition center were Hazara. The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (IS-KP) Claimed that the group carried out the attack.
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