Government Employees Killed in Bus Bombing - Kabul 2019

Incident
Date
Jun 3, 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 Province
Types of incident
  • 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)
  • ISIL-KP
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
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
  • Other Crimes : Use of mines against civilians
Regime in place
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

An explosive device attached to a shuttle bus transporting government employees detonated in Kabul City, killing five civilians and wounding ten other civilians. The improvised explosive device was affixed to the public transport vehicle used by government workers, causing multiple casualties among the passengers and those in the vicinity.

Source_1

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

NYT

No of victims involved
15