ISIS Complex Attack on Military Hospital in Kabul (2017)
Incident- Date
- Mar 8, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Kabul: Kabul
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Wazir Akbar Khan district, Kabul
- Types of incident
- Complex Attack
- Explosion
- Murder
- Shooting
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Attacking humanitarian personnel and object
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On March 8, 2017, ISIS militants conducted a complex attack on a military hospital in Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul. The assault began with a suicide bombing, followed by attackers dressed in medical uniforms who entered the facility and shot patients and civilians. The attack killed 30 people and injured 50 others. This deliberate targeting of a medical facility constituted a grave violation of international humanitarian law protecting healthcare infrastructure.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 80
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