Hospital Patients and Staff Killed in Taliban Truck Bombing - Zabul (2019)
Document- Date
- ۲۸ شهریور ۱۳۹۸
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Zabul: Qalat
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 32.1034408434785
Longitude: 66.9057939539857
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Qalat
- Town Village
- Qalat, Zabul Province
- Types of Incident
- Explosion
- Suicide attack
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Vehicle-borne Suicide Attack
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Attacking humanitarian personnel and object
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Employing prohibited weapons, projectiles, materials or methods of warfare
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
Twenty-eight civilians were killed and 130 injured when a truck bomb detonated near the Qalat provincial NDS headquarters, adjacent to the provincial hospital. The hospital was struck by the blast, causing casualties among patients, visiting family members, and 19 healthcare workers. The Qalat provincial hospital sustained serious damage to its structure and equipment, and several ambulances were also destroyed. The attack targeted a security facility but caused extensive damage to the medical facility and significant civilian casualties.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 158
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