Bombing of Maiwand Wrestling Club, Kabul (2018)
Incident- Date
- Sep 5, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Kabul: Kabul
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Dasht-e-Barchi, West Kabul
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Office of National Security Council (ONSC)
- Resolute Support (RS)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- 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
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Date: September 5, 2015
Location: Maiwand Wrestling Club, Mazari Road, Dasht-e-Barchi, PD6, Kabul
Victims: At least 30 civilians killed, over 103 injured
Perpetrators: Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP)
Incident Type: Twin suicide bombing
Claimed Responsibility: Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP)
Key Details:
The first explosion occurred inside the wrestling club The second explosion targeted first responders and civilians at the scene The attack specifically targeted the Shia-Hazara community
Narrative:
On September 5, 2015, a devastating twin suicide bombing struck the Maiwand Wrestling Club in Dasht-e-Barchi, a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in western Kabul, Afghanistan. The first explosion occurred inside the wrestling club during the early evening hours. As first responders and civilians gathered to assist the victims, a second blast detonated, causing even greater casualties. The attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 30 civilians, including two journalists, Samim Framarz and Ramiz Ahmadi. More than 103 others were injured in the incident. The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the bombings, stating they specifically targeted the Shia-Hazara community.
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- No of victims involved
- 30
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