Zaki Qasimi

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Explosion
  • Suicide Attack
  • Targeted Killing
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    Unknown

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Unknown

  • Province of birth:

    Badakhshan: Unknown

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Hazara

  • Education:

    High School

  • Date of the main incident:

    August 15, 2018

  • Place of the main incident:

    Naqash Area, PD13, Dasht-e-Barchi

Incident description

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device inside a classroom at Mawoud Educational Academy, where over 240 students were preparing for a university entrance exam. The attack took place at approximately 4:00 pm on August 15, 2018, in the Naqash section of the Hazara-majority Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood, PD-18, in western Kabul. At least 50 students were killed and 67 others were injured. The majority of casualties were high school students under the age of 20 who belonged to the Hazara ethnic group. The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Mawoud Educational Academy.

Source

AHRDO Archive

Alleged type of harm

  • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
  • Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
  • Psychological costs: Have been otherwise mentally, emotionally and psychologically harmed and affected
  • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
  • Human costs: Injured
  • Human costs: Killed
  • Materials costs: Property destroyed, damaged, occupied

Alleged type of crimes

  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • 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

Zaki Qasimi

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

    Kabul: Kabul

  • Latitude:

    34.5168788437339

  • Longitude:

    69.1499999975304

Witness/Survivor Statement

No statement