Dolakai Baba Shrine Attack - Nangarhar 2015
Incident- Date
- Apr 18, 2025
- Year of incident
- 2015
- Province of incident
- Nangarhar: Jalalabad
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.4552967856833
Longitude: 70.4518092111804
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Jalalabad
- Town/Village
- Dolakai Baba shrine, Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province
- Types of incident
- Anti-Personnel Mine
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Murder
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- Other
- 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 : Use of mines against civilians
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: April 18, 2015
Location: Dolakai Baba shrine, Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province
Victims: Three civilians injured (including two boys)
Perpetrators: ISIL/Daesh
Incident Type: IED attack on religious site
Narrative:
On April 18, 2015, ISIL/Daesh operatives detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) inside a local shrine known as Dolakai Baba in Jalalabad City, Nangarhar Province. The explosion injured three civilians, including two boys. A spokesperson for ISIL/Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack through a phone call to local media.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 3