ISIL-KP fired mortar and rocket rounds towards a crowd of people killing 11 people and injuring 104 others

Incident
Date
Mar 7, 2019
Year of incident
2019
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Kabul
Town/Village
Mosalla-e-Mazari
Types of incident
  • Heavy Weapon Attack
Conflict parties
  • ISIL-KP
Alleged types of crimes
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
Summary of incident

ISIL-KP fired mortar and rocket rounds towards a crowd of people gathering to commemorate the killing of the Hazara leader of Hezb-e-Wahdat Islami, Abdul Ali Mazari. This resulted in 115 civilian casualties (11 killed and 104 injured). The New York Times reported three civilians killed and 31 others injured.

Source_1

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 2019 Report, pg. 48, available at https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/afghanistan_protection_of_civilians_annual_report_2019_-_22_february.pdf. Afghan War Casualty Report: March 1-7, Fahim Abed, New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report.html.