Car Bomb Hits Bus Carrying Ministry of Mine and Petroleum Employees (2017)
Incident- Date
- Jul 24, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Pol-e-Sokhta, Sar-e-Kariz
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Vehicle-borne Suicide Attack
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- 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: 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
On July 24, 2017, a car bomb struck a government bus transporting employees of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, resulting in the deaths of at least 35 individuals and injuring 40 others. The victims were all civilians, mostly of Hazara ethnicity employed by the Afghanistan Ministry of Mines. The explosion took place in the Sar-e-Kariz area of District 3 in western Kabul. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack, stating that the group had targeted employees of the National Directorate of Security.
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- No of victims involved
- 35