Shahr-e-Dubai Wedding Hall Bombing, Kabul (2019)
Incident- Date
- Aug 17, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Kateb Road, PD6
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- 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)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Inhuman treatment
- 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 August 17, 2019, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the Shahr-e-Dubai wedding hall on Faiz Mohammad Kateb Road, also known as Charqala Road. The attack resulted in 63-93,(including 15 children) fatalities and 182 injuries. The wedding ceremony was predominantly attended by members of the Shia-Hazara community. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the attack, stating it targeted individuals they refer to as "Rafida," a term used by some extremist groups to denote those who do not follow Sunni Islam.
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- No of victims involved
- 93
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