Attack on Mazari Commemoration in Mosallae-i-Mazari, Dasht-e-Barchi. (2018)

Incident
Date
May 9, 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
  • 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)
  • 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: Using, conscripting or enlisting children
  • 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 March 09, 2018, a suicide attacker detonated an explosive device close to the Masallae-i-Mazari site in Dasht-e-Barchi during the 23rd-anniversary commemoration of the death of Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari. The attack caused a at least 10 deaths and 22 injuries among the predominantly Hazara civilian attendees. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) has claimed responsibility for the incident.

Source_1

AHRDO Archive

Etilaatroz

BBC Persian

Source_2

8am Daily

Azadi Radio

No of victims involved
10