Suicide Attack in Kabul’s Shah-e-Sheed Area Targeted Lawmaker (2015)
Incident- Date
- Mar 29, 2015
- Year of incident
- 2015
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Shah-e-Shaheed
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Civil Order Forces (ANCOF)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Afghan Special Forces (ASF)
- CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Office of National Security Council (ONSC)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Destruction and appropriation of property
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On March 29, 2015, around 08:00 pm, a suicide attack took place in the Shah-e-Sheed area, located within Police District 8 (PD-8) of Kabul Municipality. The attack resulted in the deaths of 3 to 6 civilians and injured 9 others. The primary target was reportedly Gul Pacha Majeedi, a lawmaker from the eastern province of Paktia, who was among the wounded. No group or individual claimed responsibility for the attack, leaving the motive and perpetrators unidentified.
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- No of victims involved
- 5
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