Two consecutive explosions in Mazar-e-Sharif (2022)
Incident- Date
- Apr 4, 2024
- Incident date
- 2022/28/04
- Dates of incident
- Apr 28, 2022 ~ Apr 28, 2022
- Year of incident
- 2022
- Province of incident
- Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 36.6940040349316
Longitude: 67.1132463131472
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Mazar-e Sharif
- Town/Village
- Mazar-e-Sharif
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict parties
- ISIL-KP
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- 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
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Two consecutive bombings took place in Mazar-e-Sharif, primarily affecting the Hazara and Shia minorities, leading to 10 fatalities and 15 injuries on April 28, 2022. Remote-controlled improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonated on a bus in the Third and Tenth Districts of the city. The Taliban spokesperson said that the Shia passengers were the primary targets. Although no group had claimed responsibility for the attack, previously, ISIL-KP typically claimed responsibility for attacking Hazara and Shia civilians.
- Source_1
AHRDO Archive
[ReliefWeb][https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/four-explosions-afghanistan-kill-least-16-people-wednesday-25-may]
- Source_2
[BBC Persian](https://www.bbc.com/persian/afghanistan-61258883]
[Euronews Farsi](https://parsi.euronews.com/2022/04/28/at-least-nine-dead-in-the-explosion-of-two-minibuses-in-afghanistan]
- No of victims involved
- 10