Mahdi

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Explosion
  • Suicide Attack
  • Targeted Killing
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    1999

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Unknown

  • Province of birth:

    Maidan Wardak: Hisa-I-Awali Bihsud

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Hazara

  • Education:

    Class twelve

  • Date of the main incident:

    24 October 2020

  • Place of the main incident:

    Kabul City, District 13, Pole khoshk, Kawsar-e Danish

Incident description

On October 24, 2020, around 4:30 p.m., a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device inside the Kawsar-e Danish Educational Center in the western area of Kabul City's PD-13 neighbourhood in the Pol-e-Khoshk District. The educational institute provided coaching for high school students preparing for university entrance exams. The attack resulted in the deaths of at least 43 students. 72 others were injured. The attack occurred in a primarily Hazara neighbourhood in Dasht-e-Barchi; the majority of students attending the tuition centre were Hazara. The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (IS-KP) claimed responsibility for the attack.

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

  • 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
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
  • War crime: Use of mines against civilians
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering

Mahdi

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

    Kabul: Kabul

  • Latitude:

    34.5168788437339

  • Longitude:

    69.1499999975304

Witness/Survivor Statement

No statement